Google has announced some new updates for its AI-powered filmmaking tool, Flow. The search giant revealed that over 100 million videos have been created using the tool, ranging from personal stories to cinematic short films to branded content.
The AI tool has reached this milestone just about three months after its launch. Flow was unveiled at this year"s Google I/O developer conference, available in over 149 countries for the users of Google AI Pro, AI Ultra, and AI Ultra for Business plans.
Flow is powered by various Google AI models like Veo, Imagen, and Gemini. You can use AI credits to generate content using the tool while you build your story, and also upload your own assets. In other words, these credits are a way to meter and monetize the use of this resource-hungry tool.
Google previously allotted 1,000 AI credits to AI Pro subscribers and 12,500 credits to AI Ultra subscribers per billing cycle. The company has now increased this limit to 25,000 credits per cycle for AI Ultra subscribers, which will start reflecting in their next billing cycle.
The search giant added that this change will roll out for Workspace users over the next few days. It"s worth noting that AI credits refresh at the end of each billing cycle, and unused credits don"t roll over to the next cycle.
You can also use these AI credits in Whisk, another AI tool from Google that can generate content using image prompts in addition to text. Whisk is expanding to 77 more countries as part of the latest wave of changes.
If you don"t have a subscription to Google AI plans, you can still check out the content that other people and creators have generated using Flow. Google has created an online portal called Flow TV to showcase videos and short films created using its AI filmmaking tool.
Flow is part of Google"s wider efforts to push its generative AI models in the entertainment industry. The search giant previously used Gemini to recreate a movie from 1939 for a 160,000-square-foot screen, announced a program to fund AI short films, and launched a new initiative called 100 Zeros.