Is Veo 4 still coming? The short answer is: there is no official Veo 4 announcement today. As of May 16, 2026, Google's public video-generation documentation points to Veo 3.1, while recent leaks and media coverage point to a different name for the next big video push: Gemini Omni.
That does not mean Google has stopped working on video models. It means the public naming and product direction may be changing. Instead of a simple Veo 2 to Veo 3 to Veo 4 sequence, Google appears to be moving the next video story closer to Gemini itself.
The Current Official Model Is Veo 3.1
Before discussing rumors, start with what Google has actually published.
Google introduced Veo at I/O 2024. In 2025, Google announced Veo 3, which added native audio generation for sound effects, ambience, and dialogue. Google also introduced Flow, an AI filmmaking tool designed around Veo, Imagen, and Gemini.
By late 2025 and early 2026, Google's developer-facing documentation listed Veo 3.1 as the latest line of video generation models. The documented capabilities include text-to-video, image-to-video, prompt rewriting, and generating videos from first and last frames.
That is the reliable baseline. If you are building with Google video generation today, Veo 3.1 is the name you can find in official documentation.
Why People Expected Veo 4
The expectation around "Veo 4" is easy to understand. Google moved from Veo to Veo 2, then Veo 3. A next-generation model named Veo 4 would be the obvious continuation.
Search interest also tends to move ahead of official product names. Once creators see Veo 3, they naturally start asking when Veo 4 will arrive, what it will improve, and whether it will beat other video models on realism, motion, audio, and editing.
But naming patterns are not product roadmaps. Google can keep improving the Veo line while changing the public brand, bundling video into Gemini, or launching a separate Gemini-native creation layer.
The Stronger Signal Is Gemini Omni
Recent reports suggest that Google may be preparing Gemini Omni instead of a product publicly branded as Veo 4.
TestingCatalog reported that a Gemini interface briefly exposed a model card for Gemini Omni, describing a new video model with creation, remixing, chat-based editing, templates, and more. Tom's Guide also covered the leak and noted that metadata suggested a connection to Google's existing Veo work.
This is not the same as a Google press release. But it is a stronger public signal than any official Veo 4 material. There is no public Veo 4 model card, no Veo 4 Google Cloud documentation page, no Veo 4 Gemini API model ID, and no Veo 4 launch announcement from Google.
So the practical answer is: if you are waiting for "Veo 4" by name, there is not much evidence to plan around. If you are watching Google's next video model story, Gemini Omni is the name to watch.
Why Google Might Move Away From The Veo 4 Name
There are several reasons this shift would make sense.
First, Gemini is now Google's main AI brand. Users interact with Gemini across chat, coding, image work, app actions, and multimodal tasks. A video model named Gemini Omni fits a broader story: one assistant-like system that can understand, create, and edit across different media types.
Second, video creation is becoming less about one-shot generation. The next useful step is editing. If a user can say "remove the object in the background," "make this scene more cinematic," or "turn this into a vertical social clip," the product becomes more valuable than a model that only generates a new clip from scratch.
Third, Google already uses multiple model names under broader product experiences. Flow brings together Veo, Imagen, and Gemini. Gemini can expose different underlying capabilities without making users think about model families every time.
Under that logic, Veo may remain the underlying video technology, while Gemini Omni becomes the user-facing experience or the next video model layer.
Does This Mean Veo Is Dead?
No. It is too early to say that Veo is dead, and the official documentation clearly still uses Veo.
A better reading is that "Veo 4" may not be the public headline for Google's next video release. Veo could continue as the model family, while Gemini Omni becomes the creation surface. Or Google may use Omni as a new Gemini-native model name while keeping Veo 3.1 available for developers and enterprise customers.
In other words, the likely change is not "Google stopped video." The likely change is "Google's next video release may not be called Veo 4."
What Creators Should Watch At Google I/O 2026
Google I/O 2026 is scheduled for May 19-20. If Google announces Gemini Omni there, the important questions are:
- Is Gemini Omni a new model, a new product surface, or a rebrand of a Veo-powered pipeline?
- Will it be available in the Gemini app, Flow, AI Studio, Vertex AI, or all of them?
- Will developers get an API model ID?
- Does it support text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, and direct editing?
- Are there Flash and Pro tiers?
- How are credits, quotas, watermarking, and commercial use handled?
- Does it generate native audio like Veo 3?
- Can it preserve characters, products, logos, and layouts during edits?
These are the details that matter more than the model name.
What To Do If You Are Building Today
Do not build a roadmap around an unannounced "Veo 4" model. Build around documented Google video capabilities and leave room to switch when the next model becomes official.
For production work, that means tracking Veo 3.1, Flow, Gemini app features, Gemini API, and Vertex AI. For content planning, it means preparing pages and workflows around Gemini Omni as the likely search term people will use when the new model appears.
If Google later announces a product called Veo 4, the strategy can change. But as of today, the stronger search and product signal is Gemini Omni.
Bottom Line
Veo 4 is not officially here. There is no public Google documentation proving that Veo 4 is the next release. The strongest current signal is that Google is preparing Gemini Omni, a Gemini-native video model or video creation experience focused on generation, remixing, templates, and direct editing in chat.
For creators, the message is simple: stop waiting for the name "Veo 4." Watch Gemini Omni.
