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Artificial intelligence · 2025

Veo 3 with native audio

Video generation with synchronised dialogue, sound effects and music.

Announced at Google I/O on May 20, 2025, Veo 3 generated video and matching audio together, including lip-synced speech. It ended the silent film era of AI video. OpenAI's Sora 2 followed in September 2025 with audio of its own.

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