Google Unveils Veo 2: AI-Powered Video Generation with 'Cinematic Realism'

Apr 15, 2025
The Verge
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Summary

Google unveils Veo 2, an AI-powered video generation model that creates high-resolution videos with 'cinematic realism' from text inputs, featuring improved physics understanding and human motion rendering, while also offering Whisk Animate for animating images into short videos using Veo 2.

Key Points

  • Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2, its text-to-video AI model for generating high-resolution videos with 'cinematic realism'
  • Google is also making its Whisk Animate tool, which transforms images into short videos using Veo 2, available to Google One AI Premium subscribers
  • Veo 2 videos feature digital watermarks indicating they were created with AI, and Google says the upgraded model has improved physics understanding and human motion rendering

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