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Have you ever wished you could bring your favorite pictures to life? New AI-powered features in Google Photos will let you.
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Six-second clips
Earlier today, Google announced several new creative tools to "help bring your memories to life" -- including one that lets you take any picture saved in your gallery and turn it into a short video. You can choose to add "subtle movements" or pick "I'm feeling lucky" to animate your photo into a full six-second clip.
Google added a similar photo-to-video capability to the Gemini app earlier this month (ZDNET Senior Contributing Writer Tiernan Ray said it was "disconcerting how well it works").
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There are some big differences between this and the Gemini version, though. One is that this one runs on Google's older Veo 2 video model, while Gemini's runs on Veo 3; the other is that you don't get to type your own custom prompt in the Photos version.
The feature is rolling out on Android and iOS.
Remix photos
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