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Google is adding Veo 3.1 Lite to Ultra subscriptions at zero credit cost starting May 10, 2026. The model costs less than half of Veo 3.1 Fast but generates videos at the same speed according to Google, though quality tradeoffs remain unclear.

Google announced Veo 3.1 Lite, a cost-reduced video generation model priced at less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast's cost. The model supports text-to-video and image-to-video generation at 720p or 1080p resolution with customizable durations of 4s, 6s, or 8s, rolling out today on the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

An international research team released the largest video reasoning dataset to date—roughly 1,000 times larger than previous alternatives. Testing reveals that state-of-the-art models including Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 substantially underperform humans on reasoning tasks, suggesting the limitation isn't data scarcity but architectural constraints.

Google has upgraded NotebookLM's video overview feature to generate fully animated videos from research notes and documents, moving beyond the previous narrated slideshow format. The new capability uses multiple Google AI models including Gemini 3 and Veo 3 to automatically create visual content that matches the narrative.