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Google targets filmmakers with Veo, its new generative AI video model

A waitlist is available for folks who want to try it out themselves.

Veo has “an advanced understanding of natural language,” according to Google’s press release, enabling the model to understand cinematic terms like “timelapse” or “aerial shots of a landscape.” Users can direct their desired output using text, image, or video-based prompts, and Google says the resulting videos are “more consistent and coherent,” depicting more realistic movement for people, animals, and objects throughout shots. Some Veo features will also be made available to “select creators in the coming weeks” in a private preview inside VideoFX — you can sign up for the waitlist here for an early chance to try it out. The latter was one of the most impressive models we’d seen before Sora was announced in February, with Google saying Veo is even more capable of understanding what’s in a video, simulating real-world physics, rendering high-definition outputs, and more.

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