At this year’s Google I/O on May 20, the tech giant is preparing to introduce Flow, an innovative video editing tool designed to help you craft compelling narratives. Spotted in Google Labs, Flow comes with the intriguing tagline, ‘inspire your inner storyteller by generating videos,’ which hints at its creative potential. Early testers suggest it may be built on Google’s advanced Veo and Imagen models—soon to be updated to Veo 3 and Imagen 4 at the event.
Back in 2024, Google rolled out VideoFX at I/O, featuring a tool called Storyboard. Storyboard allowed users to turn a series of images into video sequences, though it was later retired as VideoFX shifted to single video creation from text or image inputs. With Flow, that creative approach seems to be making a comeback as a standalone product.
While the full capabilities of Flow are still under wraps, it appears set to work much like Storyboard, letting you shape narratives by generating images with Imagen and then converting these visuals into video segments with Veo. This guided, step-by-step process should resonate with storytellers, educators, marketers, and other content creators who appreciate a hands-on yet structured approach.
Having been in development for over a year at Google AI Labs and already available to select users, Flow hints at a broader rollout following I/O. If you’ve ever struggled with complex video editing, this might just be the smart assistant you need.
