Google Photos adds Veo 3 AI video creator via Create tab

Google is rolling its latest video-generation model, Veo 3, into Google Photos, starting this month in the United States, bringing new AI-powered tools that can turn still images into short video clips and other creative outputs within a new Create tab in the mobile app. Google introduced Veo 3 at its I/O developer conference in May and began offering it in the Gemini app for paying subscribers in July; the Photos integration marks the model's wider arrival in a consumer-facing product used by more than 1.5 billion people each month, Google said.

The upgrade replaces the older Veo 2 engine that powered the app's Photo to video feature and, Google said, produces higher quality, more realistic clips with improved adherence to prompts and better handling of real-world physics. After selecting a photo, users can choose between prompts such as "Subtle movements" or "I'm feeling lucky" to generate an animated clip. The Create tab also assembles a suite of AI tools including Remix for stylistic transformations like anime or comic-book effects, a Collage maker with basic editing, Highlight videos that assemble montages with music from search phrases, cinematic 3D-style images, and GIF...