[lukol]

Last time Google made a big Gemini announcement, OpenAI owned them by dropping the Sora preview shortly after.

This feels like a bit of a comeback as Veo 2 (subjectively) appears to be a step up from what Sora is currently able to achieve.

[htrp]

Some PM is literally sitting on this release waiting for their benchmarks to finish

[esafak]

And it's going to be hard for OpenAI to do that again, now that Google's woken up.