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

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 photographs into movies. Veo 3.1 is accessible to strive right now 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 accordance with Google, and may have a neater time creating movies primarily based on the picture “substances” you add alongside your written immediate. Veo 3.1 additionally makes it doable to transform photographs to video and generate audio on the similar time, a functionality that wasn’t out there with Veo 3.

In Movement, 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,” Movement 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 Movement will have the ability to pull it off and create audio on the similar time. These added audio expertise may even apply to the video editor’s means 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 differ drastically 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 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.