Technology16 Jul 2026SEO 881 min read

Analysis: Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down , but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thurs…

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down , but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will allow you to create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on a selfie and a voice recording you upload. In addition, Google said it’s bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to Vids, letting you create videos using a combination of a writte…

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