New AI-Powered Tools Arrive: Flow and Veo 3.1 for Workspace Administrators

The integration of artificial intelligence into productivity platforms continues to evolve, bringing powerful new capabilities to organisations. For Google Workspace administrators, understanding and managing these advancements is crucial for optimising workflows and empowering users. Recent updates highlight a significant stride in AI-driven content creation with the introduction of Flow as an additional service and enhancements to the underlying Veo 3.1 model.

Introducing Flow: AI-Powered Filmmaking for Your Organisation

Flow is an innovative, AI-powered filmmaking tool designed to transform conceptual ideas into high-definition videos with remarkable speed and efficiency. Now available as an additional Google service, Flow provides users with advanced capabilities for visual storytelling, while offering comprehensive administrative controls to ensure secure and compliant deployment.

What Flow Offers Users:

• Idea to Video Transformation: Users can leverage natural language prompts to generate compelling images and cinematic scenes, effectively turning abstract concepts into cohesive visual narratives. This significantly reduces the barrier to entry for video production, allowing individuals without extensive technical skills to create professional-grade content.
• Seamless Creation with Generative AI: Flow integrates powerful generative AI models, including Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro. These models enable the creation of high-quality images, video clips, scenes, and complete stories, maintaining consistency across objects, characters, and backgrounds, alongside realistic audio generation.
• Accelerated Production Workflows: The tool is engineered to dramatically shorten the time from concept to final high-definition video, accelerating content creation for various purposes.
• Enhanced Educational Content: Educators and students can utilise Flow to make complex subjects more engaging and comprehensible. By transforming historical events, scientific processes, or literary summaries into dynamic videos from simple text prompts, abstract concepts become easier to visualise and understand.

Administrator Considerations for Flow: Administrators play a pivotal role in managing the rollout and accessibility of Flow. It operates as an additional Google service with granular controls accessible via the Admin Console.

• Default Settings: If your organisation's "Apps > Additional Google Services" setting is currently enabled, Flow will be active by default. Administrators have the flexibility to disable it at the domain, organisational unit (OU), or group level, providing precise control over who can access the service. Conversely, if the "Apps > Additional Google Services" setting is disabled, Flow will be inactive by default and requires explicit enablement by an administrator to become available to users.
• Availability: Flow is accessible across a wide range of Google Workspace editions, including Business Starter, Standard, and Plus, as well as Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus, and Education Standard and Plus. It is also available for those with the Google AI Ultra for Business and Google AI Pro for Education add-ons.
• Rollout: The full rollout for both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains commenced on January 14, 2026, with visibility expected within one to three days.

This level of administrative oversight ensures that organisations can integrate Flow into their environments responsibly, aligning its use with internal policies and user needs.

Veo 3.1 Enhancements: Precision in Video Generation

Complementing the introduction of Flow, the underlying Veo 3.1 generative AI model has received significant improvements, particularly relevant for Google Vids users. These enhancements are instrumental in elevating the quality and flexibility of AI-generated video content.

Key improvements to Veo 3.1 include:

• Portrait-Sized Clip Generation: The model now supports the generation of portrait-sized video clips, catering to modern content formats often consumed on mobile devices.
• Dynamic and Engaging Shots: Veo 3.1 produces videos with a faster pace and more engaging shot compositions, enhancing the overall viewing experience.
• Realistic Audio and Consistency: The updated model delivers realistic audio tracks that complement the visual content. Crucially, it maintains a high degree of consistency for objects, characters, and backgrounds throughout the generated video, which is vital for narrative coherence and professional output.

These advancements in Veo 3.1 directly contribute to the powerful capabilities offered by Flow, allowing users to create more varied, polished, and contextually appropriate video content directly within the Google Workspace ecosystem.

For Google Workspace administrators, these AI-driven updates represent opportunities to empower users with cutting-edge tools for content creation, while maintaining essential control over service deployment and access within their respective organisations. Keeping abreast of such innovations ensures that your organisation remains at the forefront of productivity and digital communication.