August 16, 2026

Google launches Gemini Omni Flash, a conversational video-generation model with avatar mode held back

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The first model in DeepMind’s new Omni family will generate and edit video from any combination of image, audio, video, and text inputs. Speech-editing is being withheld; SynthID watermarking is on by default. Google introduced Gemini Omni on Tuesday...