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The tool responsible for a recent deluge of viral, largely realistic AI-generated clips with audio is coming to more popular platforms
MANILA, Philippines – Since the unveiling of the latest version of Google’s AI video generator, Veo 3, in May 2025, it has become the most attention-grabbing among all the announcements from the company’s annual I/O developer conference.
Its biggest feature is its ability to provide audio to the videos it generates — a first for AI video generators, in a field that also includes other players such as Luma, Pika, and of course, OpenAI’s Sora.
If you have been browsing on TikTok or Instagram, you have probably seen a video of an older Filipino woman in outer space speaking in Tagalog, or a podcast featuring lions and gorillas as hosts, or a gorilla describing how it would fight off an army of 100 men, in reference to a recent popular internet discussion about whether 100 men could beat a single gorilla.
But the most high-profile example is one where an AI-generated clip shows a student supposedly opposing the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte, which Rappler fact-checked here, and Senator Bato Dela Rosa shared and defended.
The one thing they all have in common? They’re all made with Google Veo 3, highlighting the immediate impact of such a tool.
More recently, PLDT released a video that also uses multiple clips generated by Veo 3 to highlight the dangers of AI-generated content.
Veo 3 is currently available on a Google AI subscription, the cheapest of which is at about P1,100 monthly, allowing users to make 2 or 3 clips a day. A notably more expensive $250 monthly subscription tier called “Ultra” is also available that allows users to generate more clips, among other features.
But a Google subscription isn’t the only way that one can access the service as it’s coming to design apps by top industry figures such as Adobe and Canva.
Adobe on Tuesday, June 17 announced that Veo 3 will be available on its new Firefly Mobile app, as part of a series of partnerships with a number of AI systems for AI image and video creation. As reported by CNet, using these systems on Adobe has the unique benefit of having more AI scraping protection. The partner companies agreed to Adobe’s policy where the models can’t train using data generated by Adobe users.
The starting rate is US$10 per month, for 2,000 credits or about 20 5-second videos.
Adobe rival Canva, a day later, June 18, also announced that its platform too is incorporating Veo 3. Users can access the tool on Canva AI AI assistant, via the “Create a Video Clip” tool, and on its image generator tool called Leonardo.
Subscription to Canva AI starts at P300 per month, which includes an allowance of 5 video generations per month, but the team says they’re working to increase that limit.
Danny Wu, head of AI products, said in a press statement: “We’re taking video creation on Canva to the next level by integrating one of this year’s biggest AI innovations, Google’s Veo 3 model, into Canva AI.”
In addition to these apps, Google’s earlier Veo 2, which doesn’t generate audio, also debuted in a smartphone in June, on the HONOR 400 model, allowing users to generate up to 30 image-to-video clips per day, according to HONOR Philippines. The feature is only on a limited trial, but the company hasn’t made it clear as to how long the feature would remain free, or whether it would ever become a subscription feature. – Rappler.com
