Google Veo 3.1 Unveiled: The Second Act in AI Video Production

Metaverse Planet October 16, 2025Last Updated: October 16, 2025

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Google has enabled light, shadow, and audio adjustments in AI videos with the Veo 3.1 update integrated into its Flow tool. The new features make the videos much more realistic.

Google has released a new update for the Veo AI video generation model that will allow it to better follow commands and transform images into video. With the Veo 3.1 update integrated into the tool, the company announced advanced editing options such as lighting adjustment, shadow addition, and sound generation. The company also added the Veo 3.1 Fast model, which offers increased speed.

Google states that with the new version, the videos created by Flow are now even more difficult to distinguish from human-made content. Users can now change the light, edit the shadows, or add new effects in the AI-generated videos. This allows AI-created scenes to achieve a look much closer to real footage.

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With the update, Flow now also supports video production with sound. Users can create videos containing both visuals and audio using only three reference images thanks to a new feature called “Ingredients to Video.” Another feature, “Frames to Video,” generates videos with seamless transitions between the starting and ending frames while simultaneously adding synchronized audio. Additionally, the “Scene Extension” tool can create new scenes up to one minute long, based on the final second of an existing video. These created scenes are also supported by AI-generated audio.

The new Veo 3.1 version is offered at the same price as Veo 3 ($0.40 per second, $0.15 for the Fast model) and is currently accessible to developers under a paid preview via the Gemini API. It is also reported that the Flow features work in an integrated manner with the Gemini application. Google also recently announced that Flow users will soon be able to completely remove any object they wish from videos. According to the company’s statement, the system will reconstruct the area where the removed object was located, producing a result “as if the object was never there.”

Google also announced that they introduced Flow, their AI filmmaking tool powered by Veo, five months ago, and that more than 275 million videos have been created so far. The rapid competition once seen in photo production has now shifted to video production in the AI world.