SITUATION EXPLAINED: Google's new video model takes the top spot on Arena. • Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds scene extension, first and last frame control, and 4K upscaling • The upscaling is the practical part: generate at 360p to save compute, then upscale to 1080p or 4K for production • It ranks first on @arena's text-to-video leaderboard at 1515, just ahead of the original Gemini Omni Flash at 1512, with both well clear of Black Forest Labs, ByteDance, MiniMax, Meta, and Alibaba @theojaffee:…

lmarena.ai@arenaAug 27

Big news: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash has landed #1 in the Text-to-Video Arena and #2 in the Image-to-Video Arena! For Text-to-Video the latest 1.1 model is +20pts above FLUX 3 Video at #3 (1495 pts). For Image-to-Video the release is a strong +25pt improvement from Gemini Omni Flash at #5, and is only behind MiniMax-H3 in the #1 spot (1494 pts). See more details in the thread. Congrats to the @Google team on this release!