The AI battle between Google and OpenAI (the team behind ChatGPT) is heating up, with both companies rolling out new products, features, and updates this month. Now, Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, is setting its sights on beating OpenAI at the video-generation game – and it just might pull it off, at least for a while.
Google takes on OpenAI’s Sora with Veo 2
DeepMind has unveiled Veo 2, the next-generation video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers various products in Google’s lineup. Veo 2 can produce clips longer than two minutes, with resolutions reaching up to 4K (4096 x 2160 pixels). That’s four times the resolution and over six times the duration of OpenAI’s Sora, which was just recently made available to users.
However, this advantage is still theoretical. In Google’s experimental video tool, VideoFX, where Veo 2 is currently exclusive, videos are limited to 720p and only eight seconds long. (Sora, on the other hand, can …