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Google Veo is coming to YouTube, bringing dynamic AI backgrounds to Shorts

Later this year, content creators and users will be able to generate more interesting backdrops with an upgraded Dream Screen feature.

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images YouTube has revealed several new features coming to its video platform, some of which -- unsurprisingly -- will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). An AI tool that launched last September, Dream Screen creates backgrounds for YouTube Shorts via text prompts. You could instruct the AI to generate a background displaying a "dreamlike secret garden" complete with "vivid colors [and] visible brushstrokes."

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