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Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control

Google DeepMind 13 January 2026, 17:00

Google released Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video, an update to its video generation tool that creates clips from reference images with improved character and background consistency. The tool now supports native 9:16 vertical video format and upscaling to 1080p and 4K resolution, with availability across YouTube Shorts, the Gemini app, Flow, Google Vids, and Vertex AI. Videos generated by the system are embedded with SynthID watermarks and can be verified within the Gemini app to identify AI-generated content.

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Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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