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Gemini Omni
modelupdated 2026-08-28created 2026-05-19
Spec
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Google DeepMind |
| Released | not yet |
| Announced | 2026-05-19 (Google I/O 2026) |
| Context window | unknown (no detailed technical specs released at I/O) |
| Pricing | unknown |
| License | unknown |
| Availability | Not yet available; expected via Gemini app and API (rollout timeline TBD) |
| Type | Multimodal video generation model |
| Input | Any: image + audio + video + text |
| Output | Video |
| This page is the I/O announcement and stays one. The Omni line has since | |
| shipped: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash was released 2026-08-27 with a | |
per-second price and a stated availability surface. The Released: not yet above | |
| is still correct for the model announced at I/O — nothing read states that the | |
| I/O-announced Gemini Omni and the shipped Omni Flash line are the same artefact | |
| (source). |
Open item, recorded rather than guessed: the Omni Flash line shipped at some point between 2026-05-19 and 2026-08-27, and this wiki captured neither that launch nor the 1.0 release. Nothing in the 08-27 capture dates it. The gap is carried on Google DeepMind.
Key Differentiator vs. Veo
| Veo | Gemini Omni | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Text | Any (image + audio + video + text) |
| Grounding | General training | Gemini's real-world knowledge base |
| Use case | Text-to-video creation | Multi-modal video editing & synthesis |
| Gemini Omni represents "a leap forward in world understanding, multimodality and editing" — Google's framing at I/O. |
Significance
The multimodal video generation space (Sora, Runway, Kling, Veo) is heating up significantly. Omni's any-input approach signals Google moving beyond text-to-video toward world model-grounded video synthesis — closer to Karpathy's "world simulator" framing than pure generative art tools.
Sources
- Google I/O 2026 summary
- 9to5Google coverage
- See Google DeepMind for full I/O 2026 context