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Google DeepMind releases Omni, a video generation model that maintains consistent characters across scenes and supports iterative edits with physics simulation and Gemini knowledge

Omni generates reusable avatars from short clips retaining face and voice.

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Omni from @GoogleDeepMind just dropped 👀 It's a big step forward in video generation when it comes to character consistency, world knowledge, and editing. I've been testing it for the last few days - and I'm excited to walk through some of the key features + my clips 👇

10:45 AM · May 19, 2026 View on X
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what they feed us in the Gemini microkitchens!

Shlomi FruchterShlomi Fruchter@shlomifruchter

By default Omni has a bit of a professional "look", but can also create "normie" videos with the right prompting.

10:02 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1K Views
10:04 PM · May 19, 2026 · 618 Views

@venturetwins @GoogleDeepMind @shlomifruchter @nbrichtova Longer videos are coming! ;) thanks for playing with Omni, keep the feedback coming

Justine MooreJustine Moore@venturetwins

@GoogleDeepMind That's it for now! I'm sure I'll be back with more generations later 😅 Huge congrats to @shlomifruchter, @doomie, @nbrichtova + the team on the launch. Really excited to see what folks do with "Nano Banana for video."

5:52 PM · May 19, 2026 · 3.3K Views
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@venturetwins @GoogleDeepMind Can’t wait for more historical day in life content from this

Justine MooreJustine Moore@venturetwins

@GoogleDeepMind 1) Avatars Record a clip of yourself, and your face + voice will be saved as a character that you can add to any video. This makes it so easy to put yourself in any clip, while changing your style or outfit as needed to adapt to the scene. These clips are all my avatar 🤯

5:45 PM · May 19, 2026 · 56.7K Views
6:21 PM · May 19, 2026 · 761 Views

Amazing work by Google once again 😍

Justine MooreJustine Moore@venturetwins

@GoogleDeepMind 1) Avatars Record a clip of yourself, and your face + voice will be saved as a character that you can add to any video. This makes it so easy to put yourself in any clip, while changing your style or outfit as needed to adapt to the scene. These clips are all my avatar 🤯

5:45 PM · May 19, 2026 · 56.7K Views
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So good @OfficialLoganK 😂

Sam ShefferSam Sheffer@samsheffer

i don’t think you understand how insane omni is

7:31 PM · May 19, 2026 · 42K Views
11:16 PM · May 19, 2026 · 955 Views

@GoogleDeepMind 1) Avatars

Record a clip of yourself, and your face + voice will be saved as a character that you can add to any video.

This makes it so easy to put yourself in any clip, while changing your style or outfit as needed to adapt to the scene.

These clips are all my avatar 🤯

Justine MooreJustine Moore@venturetwins

Omni from @GoogleDeepMind just dropped 👀 It's a big step forward in video generation when it comes to character consistency, world knowledge, and editing. I've been testing it for the last few days - and I'm excited to walk through some of the key features + my clips 👇

5:45 PM · May 19, 2026 · 54.6K Views
5:45 PM · May 19, 2026 · 56.7K Views

2) World knowledge

Omni is grounded in Gemini's world knowledge - which means that it just knows a LOT of things without you having to include it in the prompt.

For example, upload an image of where you're standing and ask for a history or to explain a topic (like healing an ACL tear).

Justine MooreJustine Moore@venturetwins

@GoogleDeepMind 1) Avatars Record a clip of yourself, and your face + voice will be saved as a character that you can add to any video. This makes it so easy to put yourself in any clip, while changing your style or outfit as needed to adapt to the scene. These clips are all my avatar 🤯

5:45 PM · May 19, 2026 · 56.7K Views
5:46 PM · May 19, 2026 · 5K Views

@bilawalsidhu brother... where art though, me and @mreflow are missing a friend 😂

Bilawal SidhuBilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu

Nano Banana for video is here! Google has long touted that Gemini is natively multi-modal in & out -- but Omni is the first glimpse into the power of that paradigm applied to creation. Toss in a video and do multi-turn edits. Toss in audio and get reactive visuals. It's kinda like talking to a smart VFX artist who can pull on it's world knowledge to inform your edits. Pretty impressive results! Could see Omni do well wrapped in a bigger authoring tool.

5:33 PM · May 19, 2026 · 16.8K Views
6:17 PM · May 19, 2026 · 411 Views

6/ Omni is rolling out today to Google AI Plus, Pro, Ultra subscribers globally through Gemini app + Google Flow.

Also coming at no cost to YouTube Shorts + YouTube Create this week.

API access in the coming weeks.

Alex VolkovAlex Volkov@altryne

5/ Think Nano Banana, but for video. Omni can edit conversationally: • change backgrounds • add cinematic zooms • modify action • add characters/objects • preserve character consistency • refine across turns without losing scene context

5:46 PM · May 19, 2026 · 135 Views
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@shlomifruchter yeah it's all about the prompting

Shlomi FruchterShlomi Fruchter@shlomifruchter

By default Omni has a bit of a professional "look", but can also create "normie" videos with the right prompting.

10:02 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1K Views
10:06 PM · May 19, 2026 · 51 Views

By default Omni has a bit of a professional "look", but can also create "normie" videos with the right prompting.

10:02 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1K Views

Prompt:

In a kitchen featuring light wood cabinets and a microwave displaying ‘12:39’, a bald man in his 60s wearing a green t-shirt slowly zooms into frame to hold up a green bottle labeled ‘AGI Pills’, pushing it toward the camera while saying, “Hi, do you feel sometimes tired and down? So in this case, I recommend you this product; this is AGI Pills”.

Describe the visuals in high detail, how people look like, what they wear, the background, objects in the background. Describe background noises in detail. Do not make it visually appealing, make it a low quality YouTube video. Take care to add details that make it look like an amateur raw video, with low-fi sound, no depth of field, handheld camera, no zoom in or out, average looking people. Keep it objective and literal, focusing entirely on spatial positioning, posture, and specific actions.

Shlomi FruchterShlomi Fruchter@shlomifruchter

By default Omni has a bit of a professional "look", but can also create "normie" videos with the right prompting.

10:02 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1K Views
10:03 PM · May 19, 2026 · 111 Views

> Redo this video so that there is a new person every 1s (or 24 frames at 24fps). Rapid fire.

fofrfofr@fofrAI

Here's an example of 3 edits of a video with Omni: 1. original 2 maker her invisible, put gloves on her 3. while she's talking, two men come and take away the framed picture 4. change her outfit

7:29 PM · May 19, 2026 · 8.5K Views
7:53 PM · May 19, 2026 · 3.5K Views

There's a new Release Notes podcast dropping soon, it'll be a really nice deep dive into Omni with the folks that helped make it.

But also, I had far too much fun using Omni to make this preview.

8:12 PM · May 19, 2026 · 3.1K Views

Here's an example of 3 edits of a video with Omni:

1. original 2 maker her invisible, put gloves on her 3. while she's talking, two men come and take away the framed picture 4. change her outfit

7:29 PM · May 19, 2026 · 8.5K Views
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