Google's Ki-Image-to-Video generator starts with the new telephones from Honor

The Chinese telephone manufacturer Honor launched a picture-to-video AI generator operated by Google before Gemini users are available. It will first be available for everyone who will buy the Honor 400 or 400 professionals who will be on the market next week on May 22nd.

The new AI tool, which is operated by Google by VEO 2 model, creates static pictures for five seconds, either in portrait or in the landscape, and takes a minute or two every time to generate. The function is built directly into the gallery app on the new Honor phones and is designed in such a way that it is easy: there is no option to add a text request together with the image.

Sometimes it works well. Give him a simple topic like a clear photo of a person or a pet, and it can create a rather realistic movement – although I am pretty sure that the tongue of my cat noble is not that big. Other topics prove to be more difficult: given a vintage car, it was made incredibly on the spot; Fresh tomatoes were stroked by a ghostly hand; And a women's football game with at least 27 players introduced itself in three teams, with two referees, to keep control of chaos. When I tried for the first time, it decided that a pigeon from his eye was best suited to be on a self -portrait of Vincent van Gogh.

Note: The apps app spends videos in MP4 that we have converted into GIFs, which slightly reduces the image quality of the clips.

The image-to-video function will honor 400 owners free of charge in the first two months, but with ten video generations a day. Chris Langley, Marketing Director of Honors British Marketing, told me that Google “will require a subscription at some point”, but the details of it are unknown.

Photography and videos by Dominic Preston / The Verge.