Google Unveils Gemini Omni—A Subsequent-Gen AI Video Builder That Can 'Simulate the World' – Decrypt

Google on Tuesday launched Gemini Omni, a brand new multimodal AI mannequin that mixes the corporate’s Gemini AI fashions with its media-generation instruments, together with Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie.

The announcement got here throughout Google I/O 2026, the place DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis described Gemini Omni as “our new mannequin that may create something from any enter.”

“It combines Gemini’s intelligence with one of the best of our generative media fashions for a brand new stage of world understanding, multimodality, and enhancing,” Hassabis mentioned.

Google mentioned the primary launch, Gemini Omni Flash, will launch by way of Circulation, the corporate’s AI filmmaking platform, and Circulation Music, which focuses on AI-assisted music creation.

Calling Omni a “step in direction of synthetic normal intelligence,” Hassabis mentioned Google has spent the previous yr extending Gemini into “a world mannequin AI that may perceive and simulate the world.”

Google’s Omni rollout builds on the recognition of Nano Banana, the corporate’s earlier AI image-editing mannequin that helped push Gemini to the highest of Apple’s App Retailer final September. Nano Banana grew to become extensively used for meme technology and conversational picture enhancing, briefly serving to Gemini overtake ChatGPT in app downloads and Google search curiosity for the primary time since OpenAI’s chatbot launched in 2022.

In Decrypt’s comparability earlier this month, Nano Banana 2 outperformed OpenAI’s GPT Picture 2 in anime illustration and spatial composition assessments, whereas OpenAI’s mannequin carried out higher with photorealism and textual content rendering. Google now seems to be extending lots of these enhancing options into video by way of Gemini Omni.

Through the presentation, Google demonstrated Omni producing a claymation-style academic video explaining protein folding. The corporate additionally confirmed conversational enhancing instruments that changed a selfie video by including new visible components and altering the encompassing setting.

Google says Omni can maintain the identical characters, backgrounds, and motion constant even after customers make adjustments to a video—one thing many AI video fashions wrestle with. The corporate additionally says Omni makes use of Gemini’s reasoning skills to grasp broader directions, so customers can describe the form of scene they need with out manually explaining each element.

The corporate additionally launched Circulation Agent, an AI assistant built-in into Google Circulation that may brainstorm scenes, manage property, advocate plot adjustments, and batch-edit tasks.

Extra updates embody Circulation Instruments, which permits customers to create customized enhancing workflows utilizing natural-language prompts with out coding expertise.

Hassabis mentioned Google is beginning with video technology, however plans to develop entry to Omni, describing it because the long-term imaginative and prescient behind Gemini’s multimodal design.

“This was all the time our objective with Gemini, and why we constructed it to be multimodal from the very begin,” he mentioned.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark by Decrypt.