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

In brief

• Google Vids now offers free 1080p AI video generation and upscaling to anyone with a Google or Workspace account, accessible at vids.new.
• The feature runs on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash and adds controls for scene extension, exact clip duration, and HD output, with every clip carrying an invisible SynthID watermark.
• The free rollout lands the same day OpenAI's Sora API goes dark for good, after Google already cut its own Veo 3.1 Lite API pricing to $0.05 per second.

Google just tore down the paywall on one of its most useful AI tools. Anyone with a Google account can now generate full HD videos for free inside Google Vids, the company's browser-based video editor, the company announced on September 23.

The tool runs on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an AI model that turns text prompts, photos, audio, or existing clips into new video footage. Until now, that kind of generation mostly lived behind a subscription.

Not anymore. Head to vids.new, sign in with any Google account, and start generating in 1080p, the same crisp high-definition resolution most streaming platforms use, at no cost.

We tested it, and the creation process is pretty straightforward. That said, we were only able to generate 720p resolution videos in both horizontal and vertical resolutions.