Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google Vids 现在让你能在自己的 AI 视频中出镜

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will allow you to create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on a selfie and a voice recording you upload.

OpenAI 的 Sora 可能已经关闭，但谷歌显然认为，人们对那种能让你在自己的 AI 视频中出镜的工具依然兴趣浓厚。周四，这家科技巨头宣布对 Google Vids 进行更新，允许用户通过上传自拍照和录音，创建一个外貌和声音都与自己一致的定制数字分身。

In addition, Google said it’s bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to Vids, letting you create videos using a combination of a written prompt and reference images you upload. Omni then mixes those inputs together to create the AI video you want. It can also be used to do things like swap out the background or fix the lighting in a video recorded on your phone, or add effects.

此外，谷歌表示将把其多模态 AI 模型 Gemini Omni 引入 Vids，让你能够结合书面提示词和上传的参考图片来创作视频。Omni 会将这些输入内容融合在一起，生成你想要的 AI 视频。它还可以用于更换背景、修复手机录制视频的光线，或添加特效等操作。

Plus, Omni now supports step-by-step edits, meaning you can make changes to your video as you go instead of starting over from scratch. The updates push Google Vids beyond its original role as an AI-assisted workplace presentation tool to become more of an all-in-one video creation platform.

此外，Omni 现在支持分步编辑，这意味着你可以在制作过程中随时修改视频，而不必从头开始。这些更新使 Google Vids 超越了其最初作为 AI 辅助办公演示工具的角色，转而成为一个更全面的多合一视频创作平台。

By making Vids a part of Google Workspace, the company is telegraphing its use as a business tool for things like company updates or training videos, but personalized avatars and conversational edits could put it in closer competition with other AI video startups and tools like HeyGen, Synthesia, Captions, D-ID, and others.

通过将 Vids 纳入 Google Workspace，谷歌明确了其作为企业工具的定位，例如用于公司动态更新或培训视频。然而，个性化分身和对话式编辑功能可能会使其与 HeyGen、Synthesia、Captions、D-ID 等其他 AI 视频初创公司和工具展开更直接的竞争。

Google notes that the new AI avatars will be tied to the account holder’s likeness, tied to their Google account, and watermarked invisibly with SynthID. (I suppose that means no one will be using the tool to make bizarre AI videos of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the way that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had let users do with Sora when it was available!) The company also says that access to personal avatars is limited to users in certain regions who are aged 18 or older.

谷歌指出，新的 AI 分身将与账户持有人的形象绑定，并关联其谷歌账户，同时会通过 SynthID 添加隐形水印。（我想这意味着没人能用这个工具制作谷歌 CEO 桑达尔·皮查伊的怪异 AI 视频了，就像 OpenAI CEO 山姆·奥特曼在 Sora 可用时允许用户做的那样！）该公司还表示，个人分身功能仅限于特定地区 18 岁及以上的用户使用。