Veo

Google DeepMind's Veo is an advanced generative AI video model that creates high-quality, 1080p resolution videos extending beyond a minute. Designed to make video production accessible to filmmakers, creators, and educators, Veo offers a wide range of cinematic and visual styles.

Features

- High-resolution 1080p videos that can exceed a minute in length
- Support for various cinematic effects such as time lapses and aerial shots
- Text-to-video generation based on detailed prompts, accurately capturing nuance and tone
- Image-to-video creation that combines a reference image with a text prompt to follow the image's style and prompt's instructions
- Video editing capabilities, including masked editing and applying specific changes to areas based on user commands
- Extended video clips up to 60 seconds and beyond, created from a single prompt or a sequence of prompts
- Accurate interpretation of text prompts combined with relevant visual references to produce coherent scenes
- Utilization of latent diffusion transformers to maintain visual consistency, reducing flickering and unexpected morphing between frames
- User input of video and editing commands to modify existing videos, such as adding objects or changing specific areas
- Support for a sequence of prompts to create a narrative or story within the video
- Watermarking of AI-generated content using SynthID for identification and verification
- Incorporation of safety filters and memorization checking processes to mitigate privacy, copyright, and bias risks

How It Works

Users provide detailed descriptions of the desired video through textual input. Veo's AI engine processes the text, identifying key elements like objects, actions, and settings. The model then generates a high-quality video that aligns with the description, capturing the essence and tone of the input.

For example, given the prompt "A lone cowboy rides his horse across an open plain at beautiful sunset, soft light, warm colors," Veo would output a video depicting the described scene with accurate visual and tonal elements.

Integrations

Veo is currently available to select creators through VideoFX, an experimental tool at labs.google. There are future plans to integrate some of Veo's capabilities into YouTube Shorts and other Google products.

Generative AI and Foundation Models

Veo builds upon years of generative video model work, including Generative Query Network (GQN), DVD-GAN, Imagen-Video, Phenaki, WALT, VideoPoet, and Lumiere. It utilizes advanced transformer architecture and Gemini for improved quality and efficiency.

Availability and User Base

Veo is primarily available as a web application through VideoFX, with potential future availability as an API or SDK for broader integration. It targets filmmakers, aspiring creators, and educators, providing tools for high-quality video content creation and new possibilities for educational content and storytelling.

Veo was introduced on May 14, 2024, during Google I/O 2024. While not open source, it aims to democratize video creation and empower a wide range of users with its advanced generative capabilities.