Google’s Veo 3.1 is healthier at producing movies from photographs

Google has released a brand new replace to its Veo AI video technology mannequin that ought to make it do a greater job of sticking to prompts and changing photographs into movies. Veo 3.1 is offered to attempt immediately via Google’s Gemini API and is now additionally powering the corporate’s Flow video editor.

Veo 3.1 builds on the brand new capabilities Google launched with launch of Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025. The brand new mannequin gives higher “immediate adherence,” in accordance with Google, and will have a better time creating movies based mostly on the picture “elements” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it attainable to transform photographs to video and generate audio on the identical time, a functionality that wasn’t accessible with Veo 3.

In Move, Veo 3.1 helps at the least a brand new characteristic that offers you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Move helps you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, gives a similar feature, however Move will be capable of pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio abilities may also apply to the video editor’s capability to increase clips and insert objects into current footage, too.

Based mostly on the samples Google’s shared, movies generated with Veo 3.1 nonetheless have an uncanny high quality that appears to range enormously relying on the immediate and topic. Even when it is lacking a few of the realism of OpenAI’s Sora 2, although, the corporate’s choice to try to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who really work with video relatively than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.