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date: "2026-05-19"
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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# Google unveils Gemini Omni, an any-to-any model that generates and conversationally edits video

Gemini Omni, announced at I/O on 19 May 2026, is Google's first "any-to-any" model family: Gemini Omni Flash takes text, images, audio and video in one prompt and outputs physics-aware video that can be edited turn-by-turn in plain language, with SynthID watermarks. It rolled out to paid Gemini/Flow users and free on YouTube Shorts; API access came 30 June and Omni 1.1 Flash on 27 Aug.

## Key facts
- Announced 2026-05-19 at Google I/O; blog authored by Koray Kavukcuoglu
- Inputs: any mix of text, image, audio, video; first release (Omni Flash) outputs video only — image and audio output promised later
- Conversational editing keeps characters, lighting and continuity across turns; avatars with your own voice
- Rolled out to Google AI Plus/Pro/Ultra in Gemini app and Flow; free in YouTube Shorts Remix and YouTube Create (18+)
- SynthID watermark on every clip; speech-editing of real people restricted
- Developer API (gemini-omni-flash-preview) launched 2026-06-30; reported ~$0.10 per second of generated video

## What happened

Instead of a standalone "Veo 4", Google introduced **Gemini Omni**, a generative model family that reasons across modalities rather than stitching separate models together. Gemini Omni Flash accepts a portrait, a location photo, a voice sample and a one-line brief in a single prompt and returns a single coherent shot; follow-up prompts edit the same scene. It shipped to consumers the same day and to Google Vids (Workspace) in July.

## Why it matters

Omni folds Google's generative media stack (Veo, Nano Banana, Genie-style world knowledge) into the Gemini model line, and shifts video generation from one-shot prompting to iterative, conversational editing — a workflow closer to real production.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 19 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 49 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [Introducing Gemini Omni (Google blog)](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni/) (blog.google, official)
2. [Gemini Omni Flash model card](https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-omni-flash/) (deepmind.google, official)
3. [Gemini Omni Flash now in Google Vids (Workspace blog)](https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/introducing-gemini-omni-flash-in-google-vids) (workspace.google.com, official)
4. [9to5Google: Gemini Omni, the 'create anything' model](https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/gemini-omni-create-anything-model-video/) (9to5google.com, press)
5. [TechCrunch: Gemini Omni turns images, audio and text into video](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/googles-gemini-omni-turns-images-audio-and-text-into-video-and-thats-just-the-start/) (techcrunch.com, press)
6. [Introducing Gemini Omni: Create Anything from Anything (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyRq7szZsM) (youtube.com, video)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-08-27: [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds scene extension, frame interpolation and 4K upscaling](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-27-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/index.md)
- 2026-06-30: [Gemini Omni Flash opens to developers via the Gemini API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-gemini-omni-flash-api/index.md)
- 2026-05-19: [Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark agent and Antigravity 2.0](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-3-5-flash-io-2026/index.md)
- People: [Koray Kavukcuoglu](https://postcutoff.com/person/koray-kavukcuoglu/)
- Archived: 2 videos, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-omni/index.json