Good morning. Netflix dropped an open-source video model that understands physics. Google just made Veo 3.1 available to every Google account. And Meta pulled an AI-generated "rabbi" with 1.4 million followers. Have you seen the Netflix demos? Hit reply and tell me. We cover all three below.
🎬 Netflix Just Open-Sourced VOID and It's Wild
Netflix released VOID (Video Object and Interaction Deletion) this week and it does something no other video tool can do. You select an object in a video and remove it. Normal. But then the scene rebuilds itself with correct physics. Remove a person holding a guitar and the guitar falls. Remove someone jumping into a pool and the water stays still. No splash, no ripple. Like it never happened.
In human evaluation tests, VOID was preferred 64.8% of the time over alternatives including Runway, which came in second at 18.4%. It's available right now on Hugging Face. Needs about 40GB of VRAM, so it's not consumer-ready yet, but expect someone to wrap a friendly version around this within months.
Google Vids Now Lets Anyone Generate AI Video With Veo 3.1
Google opened up Veo 3.1 video generation inside Google Vids this week. Any Google account holder can now generate 8-second video clips from text prompts or images, 10 generations per month, completely at no cost. Just go to Google vids and start generating.
AI Pro subscribers get 50 generations per month. Ultra subscribers get up to 1,000. Google also added directable AI avatars, custom music generation with Lyria 3, a Chrome screen recording extension, and direct YouTube export. For creators who have been paying for standalone AI video tools just to generate basic clips, this is worth testing.
Meta Removed an AI "Rabbi" With 1.4M Followers
An AI-generated Instagram account called "Rabbi Goldman" built up 1.4 million followers by posing as an Orthodox rabbi and posting videos about Jewish wealth and financial secrets. The account was selling a $9 ebook and was traced back to operators in South India. A report from an advocacy group identified it as part of a network of 12 fake AI "rabbis" with a combined 2.1 million followers, all running the same playbook.
Meta removed the main account after the report went public, but copycat accounts appeared within days and some remain active. For the AI video space, this is a reminder of how powerful consistent AI personas can be at building audiences, and how platforms are still figuring out how to moderate them.