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

Google has released a brand new replace to its Veo AI video era mannequin that ought to make it do a greater job of sticking to prompts and changing photos into movies. Veo 3.1 is accessible to strive 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,” based on Google, and will have a better time creating movies based mostly on the picture “components” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it potential to transform photos to video and generate audio on the similar time, a functionality that wasn’t accessible with Veo 3.

In Move, Veo 3.1 helps no less than a brand new function that offers 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, gives a similar feature, however Move will be capable to pull it off and create audio on the similar time. These added audio abilities may even apply to the video editor’s potential to increase clips and insert objects into present 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 significantly 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 choice to attempt to make Veo extra helpful to individuals who really work with video quite than a supply of social media spam is a welcome transfer.