Google Vids, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is now rolling out to select Google Workspace users. Announced on Thursday, the tool can assist users with multiple steps in the video and presentation-making workflow. Interestingly, Google Vids is not an AI video generation tool like Runway or Pika, which can generate videos using text prompts. Instead, it primarily helps with writing scripts, adding stock images and videos, creating background music, as well as AI-generated voiceovers. The tool also allows users to record their own video or audio and add it to the video.
Google Vids Features
In a blog post, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced the roll out of Google Vids. The tool is now available for Google Workspace accounts at the Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus and Education Plus tiers. Workspace users with Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, or Education Premium add-ons will also get access to the tool.
Google says Vids allows users to use Gemini’s capabilities to quickly create a first draft of a video or presentation. It comes with a “Help Me Create” feature that can create an editable storyboard with stock media, text, scripts per scene, and a background music track. The user simply needs to provide a prompt, a source document from Google Drive, and choose a style.
Users can also choose one of the many templates on the platform and jump straight to the storyboard stage. One unique aspect of Google Vids is that it accepts Google Docs, Slides, videos, audio recordings, and more. Adding these gives the AI more context in the flow of the final video. Additionally, users can also use the tool’s “Recording Studio” feature to add their own audio or video recordings.
Notably, unlike AI-powered text-to-video generators, Google Vids doesn’t generate videos from scratch. Instead, it can be thought of as an assistant that puts together different pieces of a video storyboard based on a contextual understanding of the prompt. It then allows the user to add the final touches.
While users can access all AI-powered features within Google Vids without any restrictions until December 2025, the company said it may add usage limits starting in early 2026.
