Updates·September 18, 2024, 16:30

YouTube Shorts gets Google's Veo 2: Create video clips from text

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Google announced on February 13, 2025 that its Veo 2 video model is coming to Dream Screen in YouTube Shorts. Users can now write a description and get a standalone AI clip, not just a background.

Google has announced that its AI video model, Veo 2, is becoming part of Dream Screen in YouTube Shorts. The announcement came on February 13, 2025. Shorts is YouTube's format for short vertical videos.

Dream Screen is an AI feature YouTube introduced in 2023. It can generate a background for a video from a text description. According to Google, Veo 2 should make backgrounds faster to create and higher in quality than before.

Whole clips, not just backgrounds

What's new is that users can also create standalone video clips for Shorts from a text description. It is no longer just a background behind a video you filmed yourself.

The feature is rolling out from the announcement in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Google plans to expand to more regions later. The sources do not say when it will come to Denmark.

Veo 2 was originally unveiled by Google in December 2024 as the company's latest model for creating video at the time.

The plan was announced in 2024

YouTube announced as early as September 18, 2024 that Google's Veo model would come to Shorts. The plan then was for the tool to be able to create standalone 6-second clips. It could be used, for example, to fill a gap in recorded footage with a clip that fits the rest.

YouTube also said that AI-generated content from the tool would be watermarked with SynthID and labeled so viewers can see it was made with AI. SynthID is an invisible watermark that can identify AI content. Google's February 2025 announcement mentions neither the length of the clips nor SynthID, so it is unclear whether the details are unchanged for Veo 2.

Support and concern

YouTube describes the tools as a way to strengthen creators' creativity rather than replace it. According to CNBC, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has said that the AI features could eventually make work faster and more efficient and bring creative ideas to life more quickly.

According to CNBC, however, some creators are concerned about whether their videos have been used to train the models that power Veo.

Google's statements about the feature's quality and purpose are the company's own and have not been independently verified.