Google unveiled Gemini Omni on Tuesday, a new multimodal AI model integrating its Gemini AI models with its media-generation tools, including Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie.
Model Capabilities
The announcement was made during Google I/O 2026, where DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis described Gemini Omni as a model capable of creating content from any input. “It combines Gemini’s intelligence with the best of our generative media models for a new level of world understanding, multimodality, and editing,” Hassabis stated.
Google announced that the initial release, Gemini Omni Flash, will be launched through Flow, the company’s AI filmmaking platform, and Flow Music, which focuses on AI-assisted music creation.
Advancing AI
Hassabis called Omni a “step towards artificial general intelligence,” explaining that Google has spent the past year expanding Gemini into “a world model AI that can understand and simulate the world.”
Google’s Omni rollout builds on the success of Nano Banana, the company’s earlier AI image-editing model. Nano Banana helped propel Gemini to the top of Apple’s App Store last September and became widely used for meme generation and conversational image editing. This briefly allowed Gemini to surpass ChatGPT in app downloads and Google search interest for the first time since OpenAI’s chatbot launched in 2022.
In a comparison earlier this month, Nano Banana 2 outperformed OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 in anime illustration and spatial composition tests, while OpenAI’s model performed better with photorealism and text rendering. Google now appears to be extending many of those editing features into video through Gemini Omni.
Demonstration and Features
During the presentation, Google demonstrated Omni generating a claymation-style educational video explaining protein folding. The company also showcased conversational editing tools that modified a selfie video by adding new visual elements and changing the surrounding environment.
Google says Omni can maintain consistent characters, backgrounds, and movement even after users make changes to a video, a challenge for many AI video models. The company also stated that Omni utilizes Gemini’s reasoning abilities to understand broader instructions, allowing users to describe desired scenes without manually detailing every aspect.
The company also introduced Flow Agent, an AI assistant integrated into Google Flow that can brainstorm scenes, organize assets, recommend plot changes, and batch-edit projects. Additional updates include Flow Tools, which allows users to create custom editing workflows using natural-language prompts without coding experience.
Hassabis said Google is starting with video generation but plans to expand access to Omni, describing it as the long-term vision behind Gemini’s multimodal design. “This was always our goal with Gemini, and why we built it to be multimodal from the very start,” he said.
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