Google’s Veo 3.1 is best at producing movies from pictures

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 pictures into movies. Veo 3.1 is out there to attempt at the moment by 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 provides higher “immediate adherence,” in response to Google, and will have a neater time creating movies based mostly on the picture “components” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it attainable to transform pictures to video and generate audio on the identical time, a functionality that wasn’t accessible with Veo 3.

In Move, Veo 3.1 helps no less than a brand new characteristic that provides you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Move permits you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, provides a similar feature, however Move will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio expertise may also apply to the video editor’s potential 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 tremendously relying on the immediate and topic. Even when it is lacking a number of the realism of OpenAI’s Sora 2, although, the corporate’s determination to attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who really work with video somewhat than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.