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Google Updates Veo 3.1 With Vertical Ingredients-to-Video and Enterprise 4K Upscaling

Only Flow, the Gemini API and Vertex AI offer 1080p and 4K upscaling, with the Gemini app limited to 720p.

Overview

  • Veo’s Ingredients-to-Video now produces more expressive clips with improved character identity and background and object persistence.
  • Creators can generate native 9:16 portrait videos from reference images for platforms like YouTube Shorts without cropping.
  • The update is rolling out across the Gemini app, YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create, Flow, Google Vids, the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
  • Upscaling to 1080p and 4K is restricted to Flow, the Gemini API and Vertex AI, reflecting a split between consumer and professional workflows.
  • Clips accept up to three reference images and remain short per prompt, and all outputs carry SynthID watermarks with Gemini verification for provenance.