YouTube brings its model of the VEO 3 AI video generation, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “Slop Mongera”, to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to the Cannes Lions keyboard from the general director of YouTube Neal Mohan.
Compact creators can already exploit the VEO 2 model from the previous generation to generate backgrounds with a dream screen, as well as independent clips. Mohan did not specify exactly what VEO 3 will allow in shorts, but he mentioned the improvement of VEO 3 video quality and that it can turn on the sound, so probably these updates will appear in shorts.
It is also unclear whether the creators of Shorts will have to pay for using VEO 3. At the moment, generating VEO 3 movies requires a paid subscription to Google AI Pro or AI Ultra plans. Google did not answer immediately at the request for comment.
Mohan also announced that shorts currently have over 200 billion views a day.