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RIP Veo?
I Ran Google’s New AI Video Model Through 3 Brutal Tests
Google says its new model changes everything. I spent a day trying to break it, and what I found was not what the hype promised.
Google just dropped a new AI video model called Gemini Omni, and the way they framed it set the whole internet on fire. They called it “Nano Banana, but for video.” People immediately started writing eulogies for Veo, Google’s older and much loved video model, as if it had already been buried.
I was not ready to sign that death certificate so fast. Big claims deserve a real beating, not a round of applause. So I spent a day doing the only thing that ever settles this for me. I sat down and tried to break it with three honest tests.
One quick, very human note before we start. The Gemini app flat out refused to generate anything for me because of my location, even though my country is supposedly supported. So I ran everything through Google Flow instead, which also has Omni built in. If you are outside the US and the app gives you grief, that is your workaround. Now let me show you what actually happened.
