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 on the market to attempt right this moment 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 affords higher “immediate adherence,” based on Google, and may 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 out there with Veo 3.

In Circulation, Veo 3.1 helps not less than a brand new function that provides you finer management over the movies you generate. With what Google calls “Body to Video,” Circulation allows you to add a primary and final body, after which generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, affords a similar feature, however Circulation will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the identical time. These added audio expertise may even apply to the video editor’s capacity to increase clips and insert objects into current footage, too.

Primarily based on the samples Google’s shared, movies generated with Veo 3.1 nonetheless have an uncanny high quality that appears to differ significantly 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 resolution to attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who really work with video fairly than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.