Google released Gemini Omni at Google I/O 2026 and we ran it through its paces in Google Flow to see if the hype holds up. It mostly doesn't. At least not yet.

Gemini Omni is Google's new multimodal AI model, meaning one model handles text, images, audio, and video. You access it through Gemini directly or through Google Flow, and a paid Google subscription is needed. The flagship use case right now is AI video generation, so that's what we came to test. We tried uploading source footage to remix and style-transfer. The uploads stalled at 0% and never moved. Different upload path. Same result.
So we switched to image-to-video: upload a photo, write a prompt, get a clip. The upload worked. The prompt didn't. Gemini Omni generated something, but it ignored the source image and went cartoonish in a direction we never asked for. Adjusting the prompt made things worse.

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[00:00] - Intro to Google Omni
[04:04] - Uploading Video
[06:38] - Uploading an Image
[10:57] - Conclusion

LINKS
Google Omni: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/
Contrast this to something more reliable: https://youtu.be/Y-Saa82qPX0
Media links:
https://pixabay.com/videos/mid-autumn-stone-staffordshire-90470/
https://pixabay.com/videos/hiking-walking-trail-man-alone-282995/
https://pixabay.com/photos/girl-child-teenager-dog-pet-small-5087960/
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