Veo is a text-to-video model developed by

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and announced in May 2024. As a

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model, it creates videos based on user prompts. Veo 3, released in May 2025, can also generate accompanying audio.

Development

In May 2024, a multimodal video generation model called Veo was announced at

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2024. Google claimed that it could generate

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videos over a minute long. In December 2024,

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released Veo 2, available via VideoFX. It supports

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video generation and has an improved understanding of physics. In April 2025, Google announced that Veo 2 became available for advanced users on the Gemini app. In May 2025, Google released Veo 3, which not only generates videos but also creates synchronized audio — including dialogue, sound effects, and ambient noise — to match the visuals. Google also announced Flow, a video-creation tool powered by Veo and Imagen. A key innovation of the May 2025 release of Veo 3 was that it generated audio, including music and voices, to match well with the video. Google DeepMind CEO

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described the release as the moment when AI video generation left the era of the

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Reactions

A reporter for ''

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'' reacted to the release of Veo 3 by observing that users directed the model to generate low-quality content, such as

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interviews or haul videos of people unboxing products. Another media commentator reported that the tool tended to repeat the same joke in response to different prompts. Commentators speculated that Google had trained the service on YouTube videos or

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posts. Google itself had not stated the source of its training content.

References

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