Google’s Powerful AI Video Generator Veo 2 Just Got a Lot More Accessible

If you’ve watched a batch of those horrible AI movie trailers and different weird and disturbing but occasionally chill AI videos than you mightiness already beryllium familiar with Veo 2. The video exemplary from Google is shockingly susceptible of creating realistic video clips from practically nothing. It’s been disposable to usage for months via Google Cloud’s enterprise-focused (and priced) Vertex AI platform. Now its coming to Gemini Advanced subscribers.

Gemini Advanced is Google’s reply to ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro. It’s a $20 a period subscription that gives you entree to astir of Google’s AI models. Adding Veo 2 instantly gives Gemini Advanced adjacent parity with ChatGPT Plus, which added entree to OpenAI’s Sora video exemplary backmost successful December.

Now 2 AI companies springiness you casual entree to marque creepy video contented for $20 a month! What a deal! There are immoderate limitations though. Videos are lone disposable astatine 720p solution and they tin lone beryllium 8 seconds agelong (Sora tin bash 10 seconds). They’ll get successful 16:9 scenery format successful an MP4 file. So they should beryllium comparatively casual to upload to marque your friends cringe astatine the dreamlike horrors your caput tin conjure.

And fixed Veo 2 is trained connected Google’s tremendous room of video contented (that’s the quality of owning YouTube too) it’s 1 of the amended models for creating dreamlike horrors. But it inactive has its limitations. The clips Google provided to showcase Veo 2’s powerfulness are each visually awesome with fewer of the creepy hallmarks of AI video, but they besides look a batch similar 3D animation. Crochet wildlife and cartoon cats aren’t anyplace adjacent to the uncanny valley-like videos featuring realistic-looking humans. Google’s PR strategy present reminds maine of the aboriginal days of CGI animation―when companies would debar the uncanny vale astatine each costs to support from terrifying moviegoers.

In summation to that news, Google is besides launching Whisk Animate for Google One AI Premium subscribers. Whisk Animate is meant to marque utilizing punctual windows to make eldritch AI horrors easier. You should beryllium capable to get it to make caller images and past animate those images utilizing the Veo 2 model. Google One AI Premium includes a Gemini Advanced subscription positive Google One goodies similar much unreality retention for the nonstop aforesaid $20 arsenic Gemini Advanced. So it mightiness beryllium the amended enactment for astir people.

Now the modular generative AI disclaimer. As utile and amusive arsenic these tools volition beryllium for subscribers they volition besides marque creating misinformation easier―provided you tin get astir Google’s guardrails. All videos generated by Veo 2 volition beryllium marked with Google’s SynthID, a integer watermark intended to people videos arsenic AI (and frankincense “fake”.) Google besides says it’s done extended reddish teaming to effort and get up of the horrors our minds volition effort to conjure with Veo 2 too.

But if there’s 1 happening that separates humans from AI, it’s our quality to truly fuck with AI and marque it bash ace weird stuff. Veo 2 rolls retired to Gemini Advanced subscribers starting today, truthful you tin expect to spot much ocular horrors connected your societal media feeds by this evening.