Google Veo 3

Veo 3 is Google DeepMind's frontier video generation model, notable for being the first widely-available model to generate synchronized native audio alongside video — dialogue, music, and ambient sound baked into the same clip rather than layered on after the fact. Veo 3.1, released in 2026, sharpens motion realism, extends control (first- and last-frame image conditioning, ingredient-to-video composition), and expands to 1080p and longer sequence extension in Flow, Google's dedicated filmmaking UI. Veo is available through the Gemini app for consumers, Google AI Studio and the Vertex AI API for developers, and Flow for creators, with pricing metered in per-second video generation credits on Vertex ($0.75/s Veo 3, $0.40/s Veo 3 Fast for the with-audio variants, and audio-free variants at lower cost). Consumer access rolls up through the Google AI Pro ($20/mo) and Google AI Ultra ($250/mo) subscriptions, which include monthly Veo generation quotas. Because it slots into the same Vertex/Google AI Studio surface as Gemini 2.5 Pro, Imagen, and Chirp, Veo is particularly attractive to teams already invested in Google Cloud who want video generation as part of a broader multimodal stack.