Google's Gemini Omni Flash Turns Video Editing Into a Conversation

Google used I/O 2026 to make its most aggressive push yet into AI-powered creative tooling. The company announced four distinct products aimed at image creation, video production, UI design, and music , all built around the idea that creative work should feel like a conversation, not a command line. The common thread: Gemini Omni Flash, a new multimodal model that Google describes as capable of creating anything from any input.

A new image editor lands in Workspace

Google is introducing Google Pics, a new image creation and editing tool built on its latest Nano Banana model, designed to help users create everything from party flyers to infographics. Whether you're starting from a blank canvas or editing an existing photo, Pics includes object segmentation (so you can select and edit specific elements with precision), text editing and translation, and integrations with Workspace.

Pics is aimed at people who need visuals quickly , teachers, small businesses, marketers, and teams inside Workspace. It can generate visuals from prompts and, more importantly, make parts of the design editable: click an element, comment on it, change the time on an invitation, and adjust the output without rerolling the whole thing. That last part matters more than it sounds. The first AI-generated image is rarely the final asset. The same is true for UI. The magic is not generation; the magic is controlled iteration.

Google wants to compete with well-known design tools like Canva and AI-native rivals like Claude Design from Anthropic by making it simple for users to create images seamlessly. Google Pics is currently rolling out to a limited group of testers and will expand globally to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and in preview for Google Workspace business customers, this summer.

Flow becomes an agentic creative studio

Google originally introduced Google Flow during last year's I/O event as a filmmaking-focused platform. Since then, the company has expanded it into an AI creative studio with video and image generation and editing capabilities available in more than 140 countries. The I/O 2026 update is the biggest yet, and it has three distinct parts.

• Gemini Omni Flash: Omni Flash is a model that can create anything from any input, starting with video. It combines Gemini's intelligence with Google's generative media models and is described as a leap forward in world understanding, multimodality, and precise video editing. Omni Flash improves character consistency, so identity and voice stay intact across different scenes. You can blend real-world footage shot on your phone with AI-generated content, swap out characters using reference images, change camera angles, and sync text and sound to the action in your video.
• Flow Agent: Until now, Flow could only execute one prompt at a time. Now, the agent can take on multi-step tasks, acting as a creative partner that can plan and reason through complex tasks with your inputs, under your control. It lives inside your Flow workspace, remembers your entire project, reasons through what needs to happen next, and takes action , brainstorming with you, editing multiple assets at once, organizing your files, and helping you make decisions. Flow Agent is available to all Flow users globally, including free accounts.
• Flow Tools: Flow Tools is a system that lets creators build custom creative tools and workflows using plain language, with no coding knowledge required. Google calls this "vibe coding" for creative tools , the same concept that has taken off in software development, applied to creative production workflows. You describe what you want a tool to do in natural language, and Flow's AI builds the actual code and functionality behind it. If you create something useful, you can share it with other Flow users who can remix it into their own workflows. One early access partner, filmmaker László Gaal, created a tool called "pixelBento" that applies post-processing effects like lo-fi and glitch aesthetics.

The biggest takeaway from this round of upgrades is not any single feature. Google is connecting Gemini Omni, Flow Agent, Tools, and Flow Music into a more complete end-to-end workflow , from ideation and asset creation, through batch editing and resource organization, to publishing both music and video content.

There is one practical limitation worth noting: Omni Flash can generate video and audio clips up to 10 seconds long, suitable for formats like YouTube Shorts and ads, but Google is working to extend this duration. And Omni is currently available through the Gemini app, Flow, and YouTube Shorts, with API access through Vertex AI coming in the coming weeks. Until the API is generally available, Omni remains primarily a consumer and prosumer tool rather than something enterprises can build into their own workflows.

Stitch goes real-time

At I/O, Google announced new ways to design with Stitch, transforming the design experience into a live, collaborative partnership with the Stitch Agent , allowing users to design, stream, and steer iterations in real time. Whether you start with a text prompt, use your voice, or bring an existing codebase and design files, designing with Stitch is now a more natural and intuitive collaboration.

Voice input, first introduced earlier in 2026, is now tightly integrated into the streaming loop. A designer can say "give me three different menu options" or "show me this screen in different color palettes" and watch the canvas respond as they speak. When the design is ready, you can instantly generate a shareable link via Google AI Studio, and when it's time to move to production, you can export your screens into Google Antigravity to plug in your backend logic, or publish directly to the web with Netlify.

Export options include Figma format, HTML/CSS/Tailwind, and an MCP server that pipes designs into Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Google's own Antigravity coding tool. Stitch is free , 350 generations per month in standard mode, 50 in experimental mode, no credit card required. The market reaction has been notable: Figma shares dropped 8% after Google positioned Stitch as a direct competitor with 350 free monthly generations and Figma-format exports.

Flow Music gets surgical editing

Google launched Google Flow Music powered by the Lyria 3 Pro music model for artists, producers, and songwriters. The I/O update adds two major capabilities on top of that foundation:

• Section-level editing: Users can select a specific portion of a track to rewrite lyrics, translate them, change the beat drop, or sample a passage and develop it in a different direction , all without affecting the rest of the track.
• Style covers: Flow Music is getting a new AI cover feature that allows users to transform the style of full tracks while preserving the original melody and structure, including creating alternate versions such as lo-fi remixes.

Google is also bringing Gemini Omni Flash into Flow Music. The new multimodal AI model allows creators to generate and direct music videos simply by chatting with the AI. Omni Flash allows you to add styles, subjects, and scenes to match the narrative and pacing of the song track.

The bigger picture

Gemini Omni is not just another AI model announcement from Google. It is a bet that video editing will move from specialist software into ordinary conversation. Each of these four tools , Pics, Flow, Stitch, and Flow Music , is attacking a different part of the creative stack, and they all share the same underlying philosophy: generation alone is not enough. The real value is in what happens after the first output, when a creator needs to iterate, refine, and make it their own.

The announcement positions Google's creative platform as a direct competitor to Adobe and Canva in the race to become the default toolkit for AI-assisted content creation. Omni Flash and the full creative features require a Google AI subscription. In the US, that means AI Plus at $7.99 per month, AI Pro at $19.99 per month, or the newly announced AI Ultra at $249.99 per month. Flow Agent and basic Flow Tools access are free for all users.