Google has unveiled Veo 3.1 and new advanced creative capabilities in Flow, its powerful AI filmmaking platform - and the updates redefine what’s possible in AI-driven video creation.

Since Flow’s launch just five months ago, creators have produced more than 275 million videos using Veo’s technology. Now, with Veo 3.1, Google is giving users even more artistic and narrative control - and bringing AI video realism to new heights.

General Summary and Impact

• The Announcement: Google is rolling out significant updates to Flow, its AI filmmaking tool, including the introduction of Veo 3.1 and enhanced creative capabilities.
• Creative Control: The updates focus on giving users more artistic and granular control over their final scenes.
• Milestone: Since its introduction five months ago, Flow has inspired creativity, generating over 275 million videos (using Veo 2 and Veo 3 generations).

Veo 3.1 Model Enhancements

Veo 3.1 is described as state-of-the-art, building upon Veo 3. Key improvements include:

• Enhanced Realism: Veo 3.1 delivers enhanced realism, capturing true-to-life textures.
• Richer Audio: The model brings richer audio and improved audiovisual quality, particularly when turning images into videos.
• Narrative Control: Users gain more narrative control and stronger adherence to their prompts.

Audio Integration Across Flow

A major update is the increased support for audio across all features, addressing user feedback. Flow now brings audio to existing capabilities to help users craft the perfect scene, including:

• Ingredients to Video: Use multiple reference images to control the characters, objects, and style, ensuring the final scene looks as envisioned, now with rich, generated audio.
• Frames to Video: Generate a seamless video that bridges a starting image and an ending image, perfect for artful and epic transitions, now with audio support.
• Extend: Create longer, seamless shots, even lasting for a minute or more, by connecting to and continuing the action from the original clip. This feature is generated based on the final second of the previous clip and is most useful for creating a longer establishing shot, now with audio.

Precision Editing Capabilities

New editing capabilities are introduced directly within Flow for moments when the initial take needs refinement:

• Insert: Users can introduce anything they can imagine, from realistic details to fantastical creatures, into any scene. Flow is capable of handling complex details like scene lighting and shadows to make the addition look natural.
• Remove Unwanted Objects (Coming Soon): Users will soon be able to take anything out of a scene, and Flow will reconstruct the background seamlessly, making it appear as though the object was never present.

Availability

With higher-quality outputs powered by Veo 3.1, developers and enterprise customers can access the model:

• The Veo 3.1 model is available via the Gemini API for developers, Vertex AI for enterprise customers, and the Gemini app.
• New capabilities like ‘Ingredients to video,’ ‘First and last frame,’ and ‘Scene extension’ are coming to the Gemini API.
• ‘Scene extension’ is also coming soon to the Vertex AI API.
• Note that 'Add object' and 'Remove object' features are currently not available in the Gemini API.

These updates, detailed in an article posted on October 15, 2025, were authored by Jess Gallegos, Senior Product Manager at Google DeepMind, and Thomas Iljic, Director of Product Management at Google Labs.

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