You can try Google Veo, but you may need to be a creator

Google just announced a new tool called Veo that can generate videos over a minute long based on text prompts, much like a text-to-image tool. It isn’t available to the public just yet, but there is a way to start using it.

During last year’s Google I/O event, there were a ton of AI-related announcements that had a lot of users wanting to dive right in. Some of what we saw announced was eventually available to try in Google Labs, which is where Google hides its many experiments that may or may not come to fruition.

In a similar vein, Google’s newest video generation tool, Veo, will be available to try in Google Labs, but there’s a catch: only a certain number of “trusted testers” will be able to take the video generation tool for a spin while it sits in Google Labs. Through VideoFX, users can try Veo and Imagen 3, the company’s iterative update to the Imagen model for text-to-image generation.

During the announcement, Google mentioned that it would be opening Veo up to creators and artists with the intention of improving the model through crowdsourced exercises. In essence, the more prompts creators test Veo out with, the more it improves. In the short examples that were shown, the model looked capable but showed some weakness. Backgrounds would suddenly shift, and highly-detailed areas seemed to lack cohesion. In its current form, it could benefit from improvement through use.

It looks like Google is, therefore, limiting access to the video generation model to certain creators and artists who’d like to try Veo.

How to sign up for Veo

If you’re a content creator or artist, Google may let you become a private tester.

1. Head to http://labs.google/trustedtester.
2. Enter your information and submit.

It’s a simple process, but Google will check submissions on a rolling basis and grant access to those it trusts.

There’s obviously no guarantee that many will be able to try Veo before it becomes publicly available. When that happens, we’re not sure. It may take a year or more before Google makes Veo a part of Gemini or lets the public try VideoFX.