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A look at Veo 3.1, which now features more consistency, creativity, and control with its video ingredients.
Google Veo 3.1
While it seems like most generative AI models have hit a level that we won’t call stagnation, but do appear to be somewhat at a plateau of sorts, major tech companies like Google are still putting out announcements highlighting the improvements these models are seeing with the most recent updates.
The latest example of this is Veo 3.1, which gets new "ingredients to video” as part of a new update that aims to add more consistency, creativity, and control to the AI video model.
Without casting judgment, something we’ll leave to you to do if you feel so inclined, let’s take a look at the new improvements to Veo 3.1, which have been shared online and with some video examples.
Google Veo 3.1 AI Video Model Update
Announced on Google’s blog, Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video is adding new capabilities to let users create videos based on reference images, as well as overall make videos more expressive and creative, even with simple prompts.
The other notable news in this update is that Veo 3.1 will now feature native vertical outputs for Ingredients to Video (portrait mode) to help out those looking to create AI content for mobile-first, short-form video platforms.
As part of this update, Veo will now offer new state-of-the-art upscaling to 1080p and 4K video resolutions and more support for high-fidelity production workflows.
Issues, Concerns, and Improvements
As we’ve seen with the rampant rise of generative AI video models over the past few years, the same issues and concerns remain. Unlike non-generative AI tools and features (which aim to improve and speed up workflows), Veo is a generative AI model that can be used to create videos based on simple prompts.
However, even by the company’s own standards and admissions, there are still issues with maintaining identity consistency for characters through multiple prompts and scenes. Something that Google has addressed in Veo 3.1, but appears to still remain one of the most critical issues limiting larger adoption.
Still, as far as improvements go, Veo 3.1 is getting much better with its identity consistency as well as how it achieves background and object consistency, and its ability to seamlessly blend texture, characters, and objects into backgrounds.
Keep Tabs Today
If generative AI is something that you’re at all interested in, even just to keep tabs on to see how these technologies are developing, any interested users can check out Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video directly in the YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app, as well as access it in Google’s Gemini app.
Announced on Google’s blog, Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video is adding new capabilities to let users create videos based on reference images, as well as overall make videos more expressive and creative, even with simple prompts.
The other notable news in this update is that Veo 3.1 will now feature native vertical outputs for Ingredients to Video (portrait mode) to help out those looking to create AI content for mobile-first, short-form video platforms.
As part of this update, Veo will now offer new state-of-the-art upscaling to 1080p and 4K video resolutions and more support for high-fidelity production workflows.
As we’ve seen with the rampant rise of generative AI video models over the past few years, the same issues and concerns remain. Unlike non-generative AI tools and features (which aim to improve and speed up workflows), Veo is a generative AI model that can be used to create videos based on simple prompts.
However, even by the company’s own standards and admissions, there are still issues with maintaining identity consistency for characters through multiple prompts and scenes. Something that Google has addressed in Veo 3.1, but appears to still remain one of the most critical issues limiting larger adoption.
Still, as far as improvements go, Veo 3.1 is getting much better with its identity consistency as well as how it achieves background and object consistency, and its ability to seamlessly blend texture, characters, and objects into backgrounds.
If generative AI is something that you’re at all interested in, even just to keep tabs on to see how these technologies are developing, any interested users can check out Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video directly in the YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app, as well as access it in Google’s Gemini app.
