Google's Veo 2 AI Video Generator Debuts on New Honors

Anyone who buys an Honor 400 or 400 Pro (due for release on May 22) will be able to try out Google’s AI generator for creating videos from images first. This is a new feature that comes before it’s even available to Gemini users.

Honor 400 smartphone with Google Veo 2 AI video generator

The new AI tool is powered by Google’s Veo 2 generator . It creates five-second videos based on static images , in both portrait and landscape format. The process takes a couple of minutes for each clip. The feature is integrated directly into the Gallery app on the new Honor phones and focuses on simplicity. Translation: you can’t include a text prompt along with the image, so you’ll have to hope the AI ​​does something sensible.

What is certain is that when starting from a well-defined image – for example a clear portrait of a person or a pet, AI is able to generate rather realistic movements. With more complex or less clear subjects, such as crowded scenes or abstract elements, the result can be less convincing.

Availability

The video-generating-from-images feature will be available free to Honor 400 owners for the first two months, but with a limit of ten videos per day. Chris Langley, Honor’s UK marketing director, confirmed to The Verge that it will “ eventually require some form of subscription ” to Google, but details are still under wraps.

Currently, the ability to generate video with Veo 2 is already included in Google's paid Gemini Advanced subscription, but only via a text prompt. And only a few “ approved users ” of Google Cloud can generate video from images with Veo 2, at a price of 50 cents per second of output. In short, Honor has beaten Big G to the punch by bringing this feature to its smartphones.