Google I/O 2024: VEO, Google's Generative AI Video Generator Is Here

This seems to be Google's answer to OpenAI's text-to-video model, Sora. The model will be available on a platform named VideoFX.

On Tuesday (May 14), Google, owned by Alphabet Inc., announced the rollout of a version of its widely-used search engine featuring responses generated by artificial intelligence (AI), at its annual I/O conference. Google is calling it Veo, its generative video AI model capable of producing 1080p videos from text prompts in various cinematic styles, which can then be edited using prompts.

This seems to be Google's answer to OpenAI's text-to-video model, Sora. The model will be available on a platform named VideoFX.

To recall, last year, the tech behemoth began employing AI to generate responses to queries, albeit requiring users to sign up for an experimental version to test it out.

Google will now introduce the latest version of its search, incorporating what it terms "AI Overviews," to users in the US this week and expand to more countries in the following months, the company said. The company aims to reach over 1 billion users globally by the end of the year, it added during its annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California.

"🎥Introducing Veo, our new generative video model from 
@GoogleDeepMind. With just a text, image or video prompt, you can create and edit HQ videos over 60 seconds in different visual styles. Join the waitlist in Labs to try it out in our new experimental tool, VideoFX #GoogleIO," the company posted on X, formerly Twitter.