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Veo
DeveloperGoogle DeepMind
Initial releaseMay 2024; 2 years ago (2024-05)
Stable release
Veo 3.1 / 15 October 2025; 7 months ago (2025-10-15)
TypeText-to-video model
Websitedeepmind.google/models/veo/

Veo, or Google Veo, is a text-to-video model developed by Google DeepMind and announced in May 2024. As a generative AI model, it creates videos based on user prompts. Veo 3, released in May 2025, can also generate accompanying audio.

Development

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In May 2024, a multimodal video generation model called Veo was announced at Google I/O 2024.[1] Google claimed that it could generate 1080p videos over a minute long.[1] In December 2024, Google released Veo 2, available via VideoFX. It supports 4K resolution video generation and has an improved understanding of physics.[2] In April 2025, Google announced that Veo 2 became available for advanced users on the Gemini app.[3]

In May 2025, Google released Veo 3, which not only generates videos but also creates synchronized audio — including dialogue, sound effects, and ambient noise — to match the visuals.[4] Google also announced Flow, a video-creation tool powered by Veo and Imagen.[5][6] Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis described the release as the moment when AI video generation left the era of the silent film.[6] This was rebranded as Google Flow at the 2026 Google I/O keynote, along with the announcement of Google Flow Music.[7]

Capabilities

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A LGBTQ romantic thriller short film, generated by Google Veo 3. This video is an example of detailed, diverse, realistic character models; continuity with characters and environments between cuts; music; voice acting; subtitles; and product placement.

Google Veo can be purchased at multiple subscription tiers and through Google "AI credits". The software itself can be run by two different consoles, Google Gemini and Google Flow. Gemini being geared towards shorter, quicker, and faster projects, using the Gemini AI chat model, with Google Flow, which is essentially a movie editor allowing users to create longer projects with continuity, using the same characters and actors. Users can create a maximum of eight seconds per clip.[8]

According to Gizmodo Veo 3 users were directing the model to generate low-quality content, such as man on the street interviews or haul videos of people unboxing products.[9] 404 Media reported that the tool tended to repeat the same joke in response to different prompts.[10]

Commentators speculated that Google had trained the service on YouTube videos[6] or Reddit posts.[10] Google itself had not stated the source of its training content.[6]

In July 2025, Media Matters for America reported that racist and antisemitic videos generated using Veo 3 were being uploaded to TikTok.[11][12] Ryan Whitwam of Ars Technica commented, "In a perfect world, Veo 3 would refuse to create these videos, but vagueness in the prompt and the AI's inability to understand the subtleties of racist tropes (i.e., the use of monkeys instead of humans in some videos) make it easy to skirt the rules."[12]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Wiggers, Kyle (14 May 2024). "Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024". TechCrunch.
  2. ^ "Google unveils improved AI video generator Veo 2 to rival OpenAI's Sora". The Hindu. 2024-12-17. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
  3. ^ Wiggers, Kyle (2025-04-15). "Google's Veo 2 video generating model comes to Gemini". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2025-04-16. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
  4. ^ "Google launches Veo 3, an AI video generator that incorporates audio". CNBC. 2025-05-20. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
  5. ^ Peters, Jay (May 20, 2025). "Google has a new tool just for making AI videos". The Verge. Archived from the original on May 20, 2025. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d Wiggers, Kyle (20 May 2025). "Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them". TechCrunch.
  7. ^ Schoon, Ben (May 19, 2026). "Google Flow AI video editing & music tools getting dedicated apps and Omni upgrades". 9to5Google. Archived from the original on May 19, 2026. Retrieved May 19, 2026.
  8. ^ Caswell, Amanda (20 May 2025). "Google Veo 3 and Flow: The future of AI filmmaking is here, and here's how it works". Tomsguide.com.
  9. ^ Pero, James (22 May 2025). "Google's Veo 3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Most Smooth-Brained Content". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on 23 May 2025. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
  10. ^ a b Maiberg, Emanuel (21 May 2025). "Why Does Google's New Veo 3 AI Video Generator Love This Dad Joke?". 404 Media.
  11. ^ Richards, Abbie (July 1, 2025). "Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok". Media Matters for America. Retrieved July 4, 2025.
  12. ^ a b Whitwam, Ryan (2025-07-02). "TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
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