Sora may be dead, but some of its most buzzed-about features are about to land on YouTube.
Google on Tuesday hosted its Google I/O event, where it unveiled a slew of new products and changes, including some notable additions to YouTube, the world’s dominant free video platform.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that YouTube now has more than three billion users worldwide, in line with products like Google search, Gmail, Android and Chrome, underscoring YouTube’s vast reach and dominance in the video space.
But it was updates to Gemini that will surely garner a lot of attention, with its video-centric Gemini Omni updates allowing for major changes in how users interact with videos on the platform.
In YouTube Shorts, a new “Remix” option will let users write a prompt to remix a creator’s video by changing its style or even adding themselves into the video, without changing the basic context of the video.
