Veo 2

Closed weights Google DeepMind December 2024

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Google DeepMind
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
16 December 2024
Authors
Agrim Gupta, Ali Razavi, Ankush Gupta, Dumitru Erhan, Eric Lau, Frank Belletti, Gabe Barth-Maron, Hakan Erdogan, Hakim Sidahmed, Henna Nandwani, Hernan Moraldo, Hyunjik Kim, Jeff Donahue, José Lezama, Kory Mathewson, Kurtis David, Marc van Zee, Medhini Narasimhan, Miaosen Wang, Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Nelly Papalampidi, Nick Pezzotti, Nilpa Jha, Parker Barnes, Pieter-Jan Kindermans, Rachel Hornung, …

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Video, Vision
Task
Video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models/veo/2-0-generate-001

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

"Veo has achieved state of the art results in head-to-head comparisons of outputs by human raters over top video generation models. Participants viewed 1003 prompts and respective videos on MovieGenBench, a benchmark dataset released by Meta. Veo 2 performs best on overall preference, and for its capability to follow prompts accurately." SOTA qualification is unclear solely from MovieGenBench, which is subjective and depends on human raters. But Veo 2 seems to be SOTA over Meta Movie Gen, Klin…

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Our state-of-the-art video generation model
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Veo 2 was published by Google DeepMind, in the country recorded as United States of America, during December 2024. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.

It works in the domain of Video, Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Training and provenance

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: sOTA improvement.

Answers

Veo 2 — common questions

01

Veo 2— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

02

Veo 2— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

03

Veo 2— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

04

Veo 2— who created it?

It was published by Google DeepMind, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

05

Veo 2— when was it released?

It was published in December 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

Veo 2— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Video, Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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