Google just revealed how it used AI to upscale the 86-year-old film The Wizard of Oz for the Las Vegas Sphere's massive 16,000x16,000 screen. Using fine-tuned Gemini models, Veo 2, and Imagen 3 alongside studio archives, the team expanded backgrounds and digitally placed off-camera characters into widescreen scenes. With over 90% of the film touched by AI, it debuts on August 28th, 2025.
Google just integrated its Imagen 3 image generation model directly into Google Slides alongside a new design sidebar. The update adds in-canvas AI visual generation, pre-built layout blocks for quotes and agendas, and millions of stock assets. Why it matters: Polishing presentations is much faster when you don't need third-party tools to create custom visuals.
Google just updated Google Ads with Imagen 3, allowing advertisers to generate lifestyle images featuring adult people and faces across Performance Max, Demand Gen, Display, and Apps campaigns. All outputs are tagged with SynthID, with guardrails blocking minors, celebrities, and brand logos. Google is also rolling out audience asset recommendations and feed-only creative testing.
Google just expanded Whisk, its experimental image-remixing tool, to more than 100 countries worldwide. Instead of typing text prompts, Whisk lets you combine up to three images to define the subject, scene, and style using Imagen 3. The catch: users in the UK, EU, and India still have to wait.
Google just opened up its flagship Imagen 3 image generation model to developers via the Gemini API. Priced at $0.03 per image, it delivers high-fidelity visuals across styles while embedding SynthID watermarks. Paid API users get access first, with a free-tier rollout coming soon.
Freepik just integrated Google's Imagen 3 into its AI Suite, touting its lighting and fine detail. Users can claim two free image generations within the first 24 hours of launch.
Google just unveiled Veo 2, a new video model that generates clips up to 4K resolution spanning several minutes while understanding cinematic prompts like lens focal lengths and depth of field. Alongside it, an upgraded Imagen 3 launched globally in ImageFX, also powering a new image-remixing experiment called Whisk. Veo 2 is currently rolling out via a waitlist on VideoFX.
Google DeepMind just introduced Genie 2, a foundation world model that turns a single prompt image into playable, action-controllable 3D environments using standard keyboard and mouse controls. It can simulate physics, lighting, and character interactions consistently for up to a minute. Why it matters: It cracks a major bottleneck in robotics and embodied AI by providing endless synthetic playgrounds to train and evaluate future agents.
Google just opened its flagship Imagen 3 generator to all Vertex AI customers, while launching video model Veo in private preview. Veo produces six-second clips from text or image prompts with localized editing support. Google is finally pushing its top creative models to enterprise clients, though Veo remains gated behind early access.
Google Labs just released GenChess, an experimental project powered by the Imagen 3 image generation model. Players can type text prompts to design custom classic or creative chess pieces, then play a match directly against the computer across several difficulty levels. It is currently available in select regions.
Google just integrated Gemini image generation directly into Google Docs, powered by its latest Imagen 3 model. Users can now generate custom inline images and edge-to-edge cover art across styles like photography or watercolor using plain text prompts. The feature is rolling out to paid Gemini Workspace and Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Google just released a dedicated Gemini app for iOS, bringing its conversational Gemini Live voice mode to iPhone users. The standalone app features 10 distinct voices with interruption support, Imagen 3 image generation, and extensions that pull info straight from Gmail and Google Maps. Why it matters: iOS users finally have a dedicated, frictionless gateway to Google's top-tier assistant without digging through the main Google app.
Google just launched "Gems" for Gemini alongside its upgraded Imagen 3 image generation model. Subscribers can now build custom AI personas with plain-text instructions, while getting noticeably crisper, photorealistic visuals. Gems and human image generation are rolling out first to Advanced, Business, and Enterprise tiers.
Google just rolled out its flagship text-to-image model, Imagen 3, to all U.S. users via ImageFX alongside a detailed research paper. While users praise its photorealistic textures and crisp typography, the model's ultra-strict safety guardrails are already triggering frustration over blocked harmless prompts.
