Google added Veo 2 to YouTube Shorts, enabling users to add AI video clips to Shorts. I played around with this a few times, mostly with cats eating planets (I wanted to see it). The results were not particularly convincing from a feline or astronomical perspective but I certainly ended up with a video that included the elements I described.

YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind’s latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts. Veo 2 is Google’s response to Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generator.

YouTube is upgrading the YouTube Shorts experience with more generative AI features. Here’s the latest. The company introduced Dream Screen last year, which is a feature that lets people generate unique AI backgrounds for Shorts with just a text prompt.