- Google is debuting an AI-driven image-to-video tool on smartphones built by the Chinese company honor
- Honer’s new 400-Series phones get the Google VEO-powered tool even before Google Pixel phones.
- The feature produced five seconds animated videos in portrait or landscape orientation from a single image.
Google shows a new AI-image-to-video feature using its VEO 2 model, but Google Pixel owners can’t use it yet. Instead, the Chinese phone company Honor, spun out of Huawei, Pixel to the punch by incorporating the feature into his upcoming Honor 400 series of smartphones.
Functional processes Still images ranging from your photo gallery for five seconds animated clips. You don’t need a gemini subscription or even a cloud connection to make videos. Honor 400 owners will be able to feed the tool any image, whether it is a new photo, an AI-generated cartoon or even a classic painting. After about a minute, you see a video of some kind of movement based on the initial upload. AI can simulate camera movements, cause topics to breathe or blink or otherwise put life into pixels.
Honer’s place as the first home of the feature is born of a deal with Google Cloud. It marks the VEO 2 AI video model for the first time has been integrated directly into a smartphone. And while Gemini Advanced users can access a web-based version of VEO, Pixel owners have no special access to the video producer.
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Honor before pixel
Honor has beaten many AI plans for the 500 series with phones. Google delivers multiple AI tools in addition to the video generator. Google’s Magic Eraser, AI wrapping and other creative blooms are also baked into the smartphone’s native camera and gallery apps. Of course, even the most magical AI gimmick doesn’t mean much if the phone itself is undesirable. But at the appearance of it, the Honor 400 and 400 Pro are warm with some decent mid-to upper level specifications and a starting cost of about $ 550.
The Honor 400 phones debut in China and Europe and are probably also displayed in India, but cannot be seen much in the United States the opportunity to shoot, edit and animate everyone from the same device without jumping between different apps may lure a lot of content creators and AI fans to select the phone.
Honor to get early access to VEO 2 when even Pixel phones don’t have it yet, it suggests a wider shift in how Google is approaching AI -Distribution. Instead of hoarding features to its own devices, it seems to be more interested in becoming an AI platform for the entire Android ecosystem and potentially seizing a little more influence in China while it is.
