Google announcement November 5, 2026; general availability rollout reported November 5 to 7, 2026
Fifteen Seconds, Thirty Percent Cheaper: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash Goes Generally Available With Editing in Conversation
Google announced Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on November 5 and made it generally available across the Gemini API and Gemini for business, with Google Cloud confirming the same launch for production use. The changes over Omni 1.1 are concrete. Native video generation and editing now run up to 15 seconds, from 10, with duration selectable in one-second steps from 3 to 15. Editing is conversational and multi-turn: the same clip can be revised turn by turn, swapping a product or background, changing lighting or aspect ratio, instead of regenerating from a blank prompt. Reference following is stronger across character, product, and style images, short motion clips up to three seconds, and audio cues, with faces, garments, packaging text, and brand colors held across angles; on Google Cloud, audio reference input remains allowlist-only. The price fell 30 percent to 0.07 dollars per second for 720p video, which the API pricing maps to 12 dollars per million video output tokens at about 5,792 tokens per second, roughly 1.04 dollars for a full 15-second clip before input and text charges. The workflow Google promotes is draft at 360p or 720p, fix details with follow-up edits, then upscale only the keepers to 1080p or 4K. Outputs carry an imperceptible SynthID watermark. Access spreads across surfaces with different terms: AI Studio and the API for developers, Flow, Google Vids with 15-second clips at no additional cost for account and Workspace users, the Gemini app rolling out to AI Ultra subscribers, and Google Ads. There is no free tier on the API, and requests to the 1.1 model identifier route automatically to 1.2 from December 3 at 1.2 rates. Google is candid about the remaining limits: fast sports action, rapid script changes, and complex physics are still being improved.
Executives
The business fact is that passable branded video just got cheaper and faster to iterate: a 15-second clip costs about a dollar in video output on the API, and revisions no longer mean starting over. That changes the economics of product explainers, catalog video, and ad variants, and it changes the review burden in the other direction, because volume is now easy. Decide where generated video is acceptable in your brand, what human review every published clip gets for accuracy, rights, and likeness, and who owns that review, before the tool spreads desk by desk through Vids and the Gemini app.
CIO / CISO
Treat this as a new approved-tool decision, not a silent upgrade. Omni 1.2 arrives inside surfaces staff already use, including Workspace through Vids and business offerings through Google Cloud, and the December 3 automatic routing means existing 1.1 integrations change model and billing without a code change; inventory those integrations now. The governance controls to record are the provenance and rights ones: outputs carry a SynthID watermark, which supports later identification; reference inputs can include real people images, product shots, and voice cues, with audio references gated by allowlist on Cloud, so likeness and voice consent rules belong in the usage policy before marketing teams build workflows on them.
Engineers
Note the integration specifics. The model identifier is gemini-omni-1.2-flash in the API documentation coverage; durations run 3 to 15 seconds; first-and-last-frame interpolation is more limited than full generation; and the 1.1 alias reroutes on December 3, so pin and test explicitly if your pipeline depends on 1.1 behavior or pricing. Budget on the full token picture, input plus text output plus video output, not the headline per-second figure, and build the draft, edit, upscale sequence into tooling rather than generating final resolution on every attempt.
Everyone (non-IT)
If you have a Google account, you can already try the short version of this in Google Vids at no additional cost: describe a scene, get up to 15 seconds, then ask for changes in plain words, a different background, different light, and watch the same clip change instead of starting again. The clips carry a hidden watermark identifying them as generated, which is worth knowing in both directions: your creations are marked, and polished video you see elsewhere may be too.