Google announced its latest video generation AI tool “Veo” at the Google I/O 2024 live event. Veo is described as offering “improved consistency, quality, and output resolution” compared to previous models, and this is one of the most interesting announcements at his Google I/O show this year.
Using AI to generate video content is nothing new. Tools like Synthesia, Colossyan, and Lumiere have been around for a while, riding the current wave of popularity in generative AI. Veo is only the latest product, but it promises to offer a more advanced video generation experience than ever before.
To introduce Veo, Google hired a team of software engineers and film creators led by actor, musician, author, and filmmaker Donald Glover. community and atlanta (Fame) We decided to make a short film together. The film wasn't actually shown at I/O, but Google promises it will be “coming soon.”
While I am skeptical of generative AI in art, I am also a big fan of Glover's work (Wake up, my love! is in my personal top five albums of all time), and I'm cautiously looking forward to seeing it.
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Grover praises Veo's capabilities based on speed. This doesn't remove human ideas, but is a tool creators can use to “make mistakes faster,” as Glover says.
Veo's instant read flexibility is the key here. Able to understand prompts in text, image, or video formats and pay attention to important details such as film style, camera position (such as bird's-eye shots or high-speed tracking shots), elapsed time on camera, and lighting I can. kinds. It also improves the ability to accurately and consistently render interactions between objects and their surroundings.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis demonstrated this with a clip of a car speeding through a dystopian cyberpunk city.
It can also be used for things like storyboarding and editing, potentially extending the work of existing filmmakers. Kory Mathewson, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, worked with Glover to explore how Veo allows creators to “visualize things on timescales 10 to 100 times faster than before.” explains how using generative AI for planning purposes can accelerate the creative process.
Veo debuts as part of a new experimental tool called VideoFX and will soon be available to beta testers at Google Labs.
