Gemini Advanced users can now create and share high-resolution videos with its newly released Veo 2. The AI video generator Veo 2 lets users generate a cinema-quality eight-second, 720p video delivered as an MP4 file in a 16:9 landscape.

Google's Imagen 3 is a powerful AI text-to-image generator that earned ZDNET's pick as the best image generator -- even against competitors like Midjourney and OpenAI. As a result, the release of its Veo 2 text-to-video generator has been highly anticipated. Well, it's finally here, and it comes with a surprise.

It's the first time its AI video model will be available to the general public, even if it's paywalled at launch. Previously, Veo 2 was only available to a select group of Vertex AI users, according to a post from Google in Dec. 2024. We first saw a taste of what Veo can do at Google I/O earlier in 2024, shown off by Donald Glover.