Google has added a slew of new generative AI capabilities to YouTube Shorts and Google Photos. The tech giant is using its text-to-video model Veo 2 to allow users to generate videos on these platforms. The latest addition is a part of Google’s ongoing effort to integrate AI features into its apps.
Creators can now use a photo as a starting point to generate a video using AI. YouTube will also offer generative AI effects for the Shorts camera. Users can access these tools from the AI playground centre. The features are presently available only in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. However, Google has plans to roll them out to other nations.
While Google Veo 2 is currently being used for all YouTube AI video features, the company also has plans to introduce a switch to Veo 3 later this summer.
Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube, said earlier this summer that the company would be adding generative AI to the YouTube Shorts creative tools. The next phase will be to build new video elements based on a text prompt, even if there were already tools for creating video backgrounds.
Gen AI in Google Photos
On the other hand, the Google Photos app is getting the ability to animate images through the AI video-generation capabilities. Google in the future plans to upgrade the newer Veo 3. This new tool is rolling out over the next week in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with plans for more regions later this year.
With the help of the new AI effects, artists can turn their drawings into beautiful pictures and their selfies into videos, like they could be twinning with someone, diving underwater, and other scenarios. By selecting the “Effects” icon in the Shorts camera and then hitting “AI”, users can peruse all of the generative effects and discover these new effects. With Remix, the feature, you could view yourself and loved ones in anime, comics, sketches and 3D animation form. The user can just pick a photo from the gallery, choose their preferred style and transform their pictures in seconds.
While Photos gets a Create Tab, YouTube Shorts now has an AI playground tab. These tabs will list all the generative AI capabilities in the app. The Create tab is now only available in the US and will likely be rolled out to other regions in August.
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