Content creation becomes modular
Four announcements tell how Google is re-tooling the creator stack. Veo 3, Imagen 4, and Lyria 2 are refreshed on Vertex AI with a pipeline that holds them together — video, images, and audio become compositions of programmatically controllable blocks. Flow Music lands on mobile and becomes Google's first generative music app with real consumer ambition. Adobe Creativity Connector enters Gemini as one of the first enterprise MCPs: Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere become services Gemini can command directly. Project Genie + Street View open a less narrated but intriguing direction: generating entire explorable 3D worlds from a single photo. The thread: creation is no longer a single act — it's a chain of AI modules the creator orchestrates.
Announced on day two of I/O 2026 and shipping in the coming weeks, the Adobe connector lets users orchestrate multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and Premiere by describing them in natural language inside Gemini. A move that puts pressure on both Google's own consumer products and Claude.
At I/O 2026 Google brings three refreshed generative models to Vertex AI — for video, images and music. Imagen 4 is in public preview, Veo 3 stays in private preview with broader access coming in the next few weeks, and Lyria 2 is generally available. It is the first time the enterprise creative pipeline lands in sync across all three media.
At the I/O 2026 keynote Google announced dedicated apps for Flow and Flow Music — Android in beta, iOS on the way — alongside granular track editing, partial restyles, and a new voice-driven music-video creation mode powered by Gemini Omni Flash.
DeepMind connects Project Genie to Street View: pick a location on the map, choose a style and a character, and Google's world model lets you explore that area as a coherent generative environment. Available today for AI Ultra subscribers.