YouTube Shorts to get Veo3 integration «later this summer»

At the Cannes Lions 2025 festival, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced big updates to the short-form video platform, which is now the largest in the world with some 200 billion daily views.

Mohan said the Veo3 integration «will open new creative lanes for everyone to explore,» hailing the other AI functions on the platform.

Users can already use AI to translate across 9 different languages, expanding with 11 more «soon.»

There is also a function to use Veo2, the previous generation, to generate a dynamic background, writes The Verge.

Vertical format
Veo3 is, of course, already available in YouTube Shorts, but since it outputs 720p videos in landscape format, they would get letterboxed on the top and bottom to fit the vertical format of Shorts, writes Ars Technica

This will presumably be fixed upon launch.

Creative stitching
Shorts has a maximum content length of 60 seconds, and Veo3’s max is 8 seconds, so it will take a little creativity to stitch enough videos together, but that has not been a problem for creators so far.

Shorts users can also expect this to cost — as Veo3 video generation right now is only available to Google’s AI Ultra users, who fork out $250 a month for 125 videos/mo.

Read more: Transcript of Neal Mohan’s speech at Cannes Lions 2025, writeups on Ars Technica and The Verge. See also Teknotum’s Veo3 story.