AI Engineer YouTube · May 18, 2026

Let's go Bananas with GenMedia — Guillaume Vernade, Google DeepMind

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Why it matters

Guillaume Vernade from Google DeepMind takes a public domain book and runs it through the full gen media stack live. Gemini reads the whole text and writes image prompts for each character and chapter. Imagen generates the portraits. Veo animates them into video clips using those images as first frames. Lyria composes

My takeaway: Guillaume Vernade from Google DeepMind takes a public domain book and runs it through the full gen media stack live. Gemini reads the whole text and writes image prompts for each character and chapter. Imagen generates the portraits. Veo animates them into video clips using those images as first frames. Lyria composes