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🔥 Google Veo 3 Videos Can Talk
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May 22, 2025
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It’s Google’s world this week. At the I/O conference, Google unveiled Veo 3, the first AI video model to generate impressive synchronized dialogue. Paired with smarter reasoning with Gemini 2.5 and real-time voice translation in Meet, Google is currently dictating the pace of the AI race. Let’s unpack…
Today’s Summary:
🔥 Google Veo 3 video AI can speak
🧠Gemini 2.5 gets smarter reasoning
đź“ž Google Meet translates in real time
🧑‍🎨 OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s “io”
🔍 Google Search gets AI Mode
đź’ł Google unveils AI Ultra VIP tier
🛠️ 2 new tools
Google Veo 3 gives AI video a voice
The Summary: Google has launched Veo 3, the first generative video model capable of producing native audio and dialogue. This leap moves AI video from silent cinema to full audio-visual storytelling. Launched alongside new image model Imagen 4, and Flow, an AI filmmaking tool, this update rewrites the creative playbook for video storytelling.
Key details:
Veo 3 generates synchronized dialogue, sound effects, and ambient audio directly from text prompts.
The model uses physics-aware rendering for realism and accurate lip-sync with speech
Can use multiple images of a scene, a character, or an object as input to guide the generation, plus camera controls
Available through the Flow filmmaking tool and through Google’s Gemini app for Ultra subscribers (US-only, more countries coming soon)
Why it matters: Video generation has been mostly silent until now; Veo 3 breaks this limit. It compresses into a prompt what once took entire production teams, writing, directing, and scoring. With synchronized voices and motion, AI videos can now speak for themselves. Expect ripple effects in film, advertising, and game design industries.
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Google Gemini 2.5 now thinks in parallel
The Summary: Google has updated its Gemini 2.5 AI models with a suite of new capabilities, led by Deep Think, an experimental reasoning mode that allows Gemini Pro to consider multiple ideas at once. Gemini 2.5 Flash, the lighter sibling, gets faster and smarter with better efficiency and multimodal reasoning.
Key details:
Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think mode leads LiveCodeBench (competition-level coding) and MMMU (multimodal reasoning) benchmarks
Gemini 2.5 Flash is now 20-30% more efficient in token usage, with improved performance at affordable prices
Gemini gets native multimodal audio output with emotion detection, two-voice support, and whisper like expressiveness
Developers can control how long the AI “thinks” and see structured thought summaries in API responses
Why it matters: More than a simple upgrade, Google is testing ideas once reserved for science fiction. The new Gemini models continue to leapfrog past limits, now offering voice interfaces with emotional nuance and speaker dynamics. Google is giving developers a powerful platform to build and deploy AI products, with detailed control over performance and cost.
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Google Meet gets real-time voice translation
The Summary: Google Meet now offers real-time speech translation from English to Spanish, using AI to preserve the speaker’s voice and tone. Available to AI Pro subscribers, this beta feature adds a fluent interpreter without subtitles. Google plans to expand language support soon and roll out enterprise testing.
Key details:
Available in beta for Google AI Pro at $20/month and for Ultra plan
Translates English to Spanish in real-time, using the speaker’s own synthesized voice
The AI preserves tone, cadence, and emotion
The original voice plays in the background while the translated voice keeps at normal volume
Why it matters: Real-time voice translation can redefine remote communication, not just for business, but also for family, travel, and education. As speech synthesis gets better, expect conversations between people who don’t share a language to feel less like translations and more like perfectly normal conversations.
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OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s “io” to build AI devices
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