Milestones
- Veo announced at Google I/OMay 2024Complete.
- Veo 2 with 4K output and better physicsDec 2024Complete.
- Veo 3 adds matching sound. Flow video tool launchedMay 2025Complete.
- Veo 3.1 released15 Oct 2025Complete.
Most important updates
- 19 May 2026
- 15 Oct 2025
- 20 May 2025
- 16 Dec 2024
- 14 May 2024
Current obstacles
- Physics and consistencyClips can break physics or change a character's look between shots. Longer videos make this worse.
- Deepfakes and misuseRealistic fake video can mislead people. Google adds hidden SynthID watermarks, but detection isn't perfect.
Physics limits
- Video is enormous dataOne second of 1080p at 24 fps is about 150 million colour values. Models first compress it many times over; fine detail lost in that step can't be restored.
- Long clips cost far more than short onesThe whole clip is denoised together and attention cost rises with the square of its length, which is why clips are around 8 seconds, not minutes.
- Physics is imitated, not computedMotion is learned from how video usually looks. Nothing enforces gravity or solid objects, so hands, liquids and collisions still go wrong.
How it works
Compress
Shrinking the video first
An encoder compresses video and sound into a much smaller code; the model works in that code and a decoder turns it back into pixels.
Diffusion
Carving from noise
Generation starts from random noise and removes it step by step, guided by the text prompt, until a coherent clip emerges.
Audio
Sound made alongside
Veo 3 generates dialogue, effects and music together with the frames, so lips and footsteps line up with the picture.
Marking
Invisible watermark
Every clip carries SynthID, a hidden watermark that Google's detector can find even after moderate edits or compression.
Update log
Tue 19 May
- Major: BlogSoftware
Wed 15 Oct 2025
- Minor: BlogSoftware
Tue 20 May 2025
- Major: BlogSoftware
Mon 16 Dec 2024
- Minor: BlogSoftware
Tue 14 May 2024
- Major: BlogSoftware
About Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind
Gemini, AlphaFold, Genie, Veo, TPU chips
Google DeepMind is Alphabet's AI lab, formed in 2023 from DeepMind and Google Brain. It builds the Gemini models and leads in AI for science. AlphaFold won a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Gemini 3 (Nov 2025) led many benchmarks. Gemini 3.5 Pro, announced in May 2026, is delayed.
- AlphaFold predicted structures for over 200 million proteins and won a share of the 2024 Chemistry Nobel.
- Google's own Ironwood TPU chip is used in-house and sold to outside labs, including Anthropic.
- Founded
- 201016 yrs
- Headquarters
- United KingdomUnited States
- Status
- Subsidiaryof Alphabet
- Valuation
- Alphabet-owned
- Coverage
- 5 programs · 31 updateslatest 3d agochecked 25 Sep
- Customers
- Anthropic
- Partners
- Isomorphic LabsBroadcom
- Acquired by
- Alphabet
- People
- Demis HassabisCEO and co-founderShane LeggCo-founder and Chief AGI ScientistJohn JumperAlphaFold lead; 2024 Nobel laureate