The Evolution of Synthetic Cinema: Understanding Google Veo 2 (“Video II”)

The landscape of artificial intelligence is moving at a breakneck speed, and few domains have transformed as radically as generative video. When people refer to “Video II”—most prominently embodied by Google Veo 2 (the breakthrough second-generation iteration of Google DeepMind’s flagship video generation technology)—they are talking about a monumental leap past the glitchy, surreal loops of early AI video.