Yulia Rubanova

I build video models that understand objects, physics, and action.
Staff Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind, Veo Ingredients-to-Video. Co-author Neural ODEs

[fofr @fofrAI]

One year later with Omni and this test can pass. I saw it getting pretty close, so I tweaked the prompt:

> A video of a man counting to 10 on his fingers, show the number in the corner. A new number every 1s, no dialogue other than the numbers he says. He uses two hands for numbers bigger than 5.

- the model does 1 to 5 consistently well
- struggles more when two hands are used, usually on 7 and 8
- if you ask it to count faster, errors increase
- it keeps a good cadence

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Genuinely amazed by how many generalist visual capabilities one can squeeze out of this model

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

A few days post-I/O, people are starting to see what Gemini Omni is capable of.
Being a part of this project from the early days, it’s been amazing to watch native multimodality open up a new space of possibilities for video generation. Give it a try.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re dropping Gemini Omni: our first step towards a model that can create anything from anything - starting with video.

It combines Gemini’s intelligence with our generative media systems - representing a leap forward in world understanding, multimodality, and editing 🧵

[Miko @Mho_23]

not sure why nobody is talking about this but Google Omni is insane at video editing

Original Video (left) vs Omni Edited Video (right)

everyone is comparing it to Seedance and missing the point completely. Seedance is for generating videos from scratch. Google Omni is for editing videos that already exist. which are two completely different use cases

this is like when Nano Banana 1 first came out and nobody realized how big it was going to be. this is the first AI that can actually properly edit videos..

i've generated a few hundred videos with this model and it can do literally any type of edit you can think of. changing voices, swapping characters, removing watermarks, adding captions, transitions, pop ups, whatever. if you can describe the edit you want it can do it

this completely crushes every other model on the market when it comes to video editing. nothing else even comes close right now

and this is just the flash model. imagine what the pro version is going to be able to do when it drops in a couple months

this should have way more hype than it's getting..

[MBZ @babaeizadeh]

The likeness preservation and natural realism coming out of Gemini #Omni Flash is absolutely unreal 🤯

Huge shoutout to the insanely talented team for pushing these boundaries. The team absolutely cooked. 👨‍🍳🔥

If Flash is this good... imagine what Pro is about to unleash. 👀✨

[Shlomi Fruchter @shlomifruchter]

We sat down with @OfficialLoganK @nbrichtova @doomie @gbarthmaron to talk about Gemini Omni Flash. It was pretty wild.

[Jay Whang @jaywhang_]

Super excited to see Gemini Omni finally out in the world! Having been part of this project since its inception, I've seen how its native multimodal capabilities can redefine what's possible. We're truly entering the "Nano Banana era" for video generation. Give it a try!

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

Excited to head to ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷!

Happy to chat about video generation, controllability and world models!

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

We released Veo 3.1 Ingredients more than 6 months ago, and it is still ranking on top!

[Design Arena @Designarena]

BREAKING: Veo 3.1 Fast and Veo 3.1 by @GoogleDeepMind are in 1st and 2nd place on Multi-Image to Video Arena

These models can successfully reference multiple input images to create a video that users love

At an average generation time of 48 seconds, they are also the two fastest video generation models

Huge congrats to the @GoogleDeepMind team for this achievement!

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

@jakecsnell @Cambridge_Uni @Cambridge_Eng Big congrats, Jake! Welcome to the UK 🇬🇧

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

New version Ingredients to Video is out!

Now with a portrait mode, better storytelling and consistency -- now available directly on Youtube Shorts.

It is the most rewarding experience to be part of this team and put this into the hands of real users.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re updating Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video to help create more expressive and dynamic clips, produce better visual consistency and more. 📽️

Here’s what’s new 🧵

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

Veo is officially a world simulator for robotics! 🤖🎥

We used action-conditioned Veo to evaluate robotics policies entirely in a generated video. This is a game-changer for scalable, safe robotics testing. Loved working with the team on this!

[Anirudha Majumdar @Majumdar_Ani]

Generalist robots need a generalist evaluator. But how do you test safety without breaking things? 💥

🌎 Introducing our new work from @GoogleDeepMind:
Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator
https://t.co/ZjvpYXFddZ

🧵👇

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

So excited to finally talk about this work!

Veo is a surprisingly strong world simulator. We fine-tuned Veo on action-conditioned, multi-view robotics data.

Key result: running a policy in the world model is strongly correlated with real-world results.

A few important take-aways:

1) Veo Robotics models real-world physics and robot interactions

2) The base model's world knowledge is retained after fine-tuning and can model OOD scenarios not seen in the robotics data

3) The world model can be used to score task success or failure for a given policy

4) This proves useful for predictive red teaming: simulate dangerous or rare scenarios that would be difficult or irresponsible to execute on the real robot, and judge its performance

I couldn't be more excited about where generalist video models are headed.

[Aäron van den Oord @avdnoord]

Our second Nano Banana in three months 🚢 🚢. Super proud of the team!!

Looking forward to seeing what you'll create with it. Any feedback welcome!

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

Try out Veo Ingredients -- now on Gemini App!

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

We’re back with another update to Veo 3.1:

Rolling out now on mobile and desktop, you can upload multiple reference images alongside your video prompts, to create entirely new worlds and more nuanced videos that are true to your vision.

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

@xf1280 @techreview Congratulations, Fei! 🎉 Well deserved

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

Excited to share a huge update Veo Ingredients!

Now your characters can speak🎤 and sing🎶

Seriously, this opens up a whole new level of storytelling. Try it out on Flow: https://t.co/rxBBBimHhf

#VeoIngredients #veo3_1

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

🖼️ Ingredients to video

Give multiple reference images with different people and objects, and watch how Veo integrates these into a fully-formed scene - complete with sound.

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

Veo 3.1 got a major quality upgrade 👇 Try it out!

[Arena.ai @arena]

🚨🎬 Big news from Video Arena!

@GoogleDeepMind’s latest Veo 3.1 now ranks #1 in both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video leaderboards. 🏆

This is a +30-point leap from Veo 3.0 → 3.1, making it the first model to break 1400 in Video Arena history!

Huge congrats to the @GoogleDeepMind team for pushing the frontier of video generation forward!

More details in the thread 🧵

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

What an incredible night! Thank you @corl_conf for shaking things up and inviting both a K-pop band and a Korean traditional music band to the CoRL Banquet. It made the evening truly special.

[Sourav Garg @sourav_garg_]

K-Pop performance @corl_conf banquet by @geeniusofficial
#CoRL2025

[Yulia Rubanova @YuliaRubanova]

Veo 3 has powerful visual reasoning capabilities out of the box 👾 It can solve puzzles, understand optical illusions, reason about gravity, lighting, color mixing and more! Veo just keeps on giving 🍏

Check out a detailed investigation by our Deepmind colleagues below 👇

[Paul Vicol @PaulVicol]

🔥Veo 3 has emergent zero-shot learning and reasoning capabilities!

This multitalented model can do a huge range of interesting tasks.

It understands physical properties, can manipulate objects, and can even reason.

Check out more examples in this thread!