Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone

Google announced that any Google or Workspace account holder can now generate high-definition AI video through Google Vids at vids.new, using the Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash model. The browser-based editor can take text prompts, photos, audio, or existing clips and produce new footage, and Google says the feature supports 1080p output. In the publisher’s tests, however, generated clips were limited to 720p. The update introduces editing features that previously required paid tools. Scene extension maintains consistent lighting, characters and setting while lengthening a clip; users can also set an exact scene duration to align video with scripts or voiceovers. Older AI-generated clips can be upscaled to 1080p instead of having to be regenerated. Every clip created by the tool contains an invisible SynthID watermark embedded in the frames; Google provides a separate SynthID Detector utility that can identify AI-generated content. Google also reports fast processing times — the source’s short test clip rendered in under 30 seconds — and says a companion text-to-speech feature, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite, will follow to produce voiceovers in more than 100 languages. Access levels vary by account type: personal Google accounts receive a baseline free allowance, paid Google AI plans unlock larger pools, and Workspace Business and Enterprise subscriptions get the biggest generation quotas plus administrative controls for teams. The free rollout coincides with industry shifts — OpenAI’s Sora API went offline on the same day — and follows Google’s own recent price cut for its Veo 3.1 Lite API to $0.05 per second, moves that affect both consumer and developer access to video-generative models.