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Google's new Veo 3.1 video model has landed.
It can blend individual images into a unified video clip.
Like its predecessor, it also creates videos with audio.
Once upon a time, animators had to painstakingly work frame-by-frame, stitching together long strings of still images to create the illusion of motion. Today, they only need to upload a few images, and AI will do the rest.
On Wednesday, Google DeepMind released its latest video-generating AI model, Veo 3.1, available now in Flow, Vertex AI, the Gemini API, the Gemini App, and Vids. The company also released a smaller, less powerful version of the model called Veo 3.1 Fast.
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Veo 3.1 specializes in blending disparate images into natural-looking videos, significantly reducing the time and resources that have historically been required for video production. Amazon also recently debuted an AI tool which allows brands to generate short video ads from still images of products in a matter of seconds.
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