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Gemini Omni performed native video edits on the 1896 Lumiere film of a steam train, converting it into versions with a bullet train, LEGO styling, Muppets, and a time traveler while preserving reflections.

Wharton associate professor Ethan Mollick shared the 56-second example.

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I think people don't realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous "train " movie from 1896 & made it a bullet train, LEGO, added a time traveler, a centipede, muppets... (see reflections?)

10:22 AM · May 22, 2026 View on X

Not bad reply to a pretty open-ended prompt: "this is the original train movie that supposedly terrified audiences. edit it so that it is as scary to modern audiences as the original was to its audience at its time"

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

I think people don't realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous "train " movie from 1896 & made it a bullet train, LEGO, added a time traveler, a centipede, muppets... (see reflections?)

5:22 PM · May 22, 2026 · 87K Views
9:09 PM · May 22, 2026 · 4.2K Views

@emollick this is cool

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

I think people don't realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous "train " movie from 1896 & made it a bullet train, LEGO, added a time traveler, a centipede, muppets... (see reflections?)

5:22 PM · May 22, 2026 · 87K Views
5:25 PM · May 22, 2026 · 262 Views

I love this.

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

I think people don't realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous "train " movie from 1896 & made it a bullet train, LEGO, added a time traveler, a centipede, muppets... (see reflections?)

5:22 PM · May 22, 2026 · 87K Views
7:00 PM · May 22, 2026 · 4.1K Views