Veo 3 Fast and new image-to-video capabilities

The launch of Veo 3 Fast presents an optimized model for speed and cost-effectiveness, allowing developers to efficiently create high-quality video outputs. Veo 3 Fast is tailored for business use cases such as programmatic advertising, rapid prototyping, and large-scale content creation, offering both text-to-video and image-to-video capabilities at $0.40 per second with audio. The newly introduced image-to-video feature allows for the creation of dynamic video sequences from a single still image, maintaining consistency and providing creative flexibility through precise prompting and seamless API integration. This feature, available via the Gemini API, is priced at $0.75 per second with audio and is designed to enhance video editing experiences by generating cinematic-quality videos with minimal effort.