AI Video Drops to Seven Cents a Second

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash adds length and chat editing while cutting the price 30%, shifting competition to workflow.

Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on 5 November 2026, extending native clip length from 10 to 15 seconds, allowing 3-to-15-second durations in one-second steps, and cutting the 720p price by 30% to $0.07 per second. The model adds multi-turn conversational editing and stronger reference adherence, and took first place on both text-to-video and image-to-video leaderboards. Outputs carry an invisible SynthID watermark.