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Google Updates Veo 3.1 With Native Vertical Video, 4K Upscaling, and Better Image-to-Video

The rollout spans Gemini, YouTube Shorts/Create, Flow, plus Google Cloud APIs to support mobile-first creation with built-in AI provenance checks.

Overview

  • Veo 3.1 now outputs native 9:16 videos for short-form platforms, eliminating the need to crop for formats like YouTube Shorts.
  • Upgrades to Ingredients to Video make clips more expressive with richer dialogue and stronger consistency for characters, objects, and backgrounds.
  • Users can generate from up to three reference images to control subjects, textures, and environments across scenes.
  • State-of-the-art upscaling delivers higher-fidelity results at 1080p and 4K, with improved sharpness at 1080p for editing workflows.
  • Features are available or rolling out in the Gemini app, YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app, Flow, the Gemini API, Vertex AI, and Google Vids, with Google’s SynthID watermark and video verification in the Gemini app.