Google announces generative video model ‘Veo’ to compete with OpenAI’s impending Sora AI model

Google has just introduced its new generative AI video model, Veo, beating OpenAI’s text-to-video service Sora, launching Veo into private preview on Google’s in-house Vertex AI platform.

Google’s new Veo model can generate “high-quality” 1080p resolution videos in multiple different visual and cinematic styles, all from text or image-based prompts. The search giant unveiled its text-to-video model a few months ago with generated clips that would be “beyond a minute” in length, but the company didn’t specify… but now, these videos that were made by Veo are pretty astounding.

The latest version of Google Imagen 3 text-to-image generative will be online and available for all Google Cloud customers on Vertex “starting next week” says the company, which will see an expansion of its US-first release on Google’s AI Text Kitchen in August 2024.

Google it pitching its new Veo to advertisers as a way to make ads both faster, and …