Google adds Gemini Omni to Flow and Flow Music for conversational creative tools

Google expanded its Flow and Flow Music creative tools on May 19, adding Gemini Omni Flash, agent features and new mobile apps as it pushes more of its generative media products beyond desktop workflows. The updates were listed in Google’s I/O 2026 collection and on Google Labs pages for the products. Google said the changes let users create and edit video with conversational prompts, and use Flow Music to generate songs, music videos and related assets. A May 20 social post from OneilyGadget pointed to the new mobile rollouts and agentic workflow changes. ### What exactly changed in Flow this week? Google said on May 19 that Flow now uses Gemini Omni Flash, the first model in its new Omni family, inside the creative studio. In Google’s description, Omni can take images, audio, video and text as inputs to generate video, and it supports conversational editing so users can revise clips with follow-up prompts instead of rebuilding scenes from scratch. (blog.google) Google Labs describes Flow as an “AI creative studio” and says the product now combines Gemini Omni, Nano Banana and Veo 3.1. The Flow product page says users can blend text, image and video inputs, while an in-product agent helps plan, iterate and refine projects. ### What does Gemini Omni add that earlier Flow tools did not? (blog.google) Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind’s CTO and Google’s chief AI architect, wrote that Gemini Omni is designed to “create anything from any input — starting with video.” He said the model combines Gemini’s reasoning with media generation and can edit videos “through conversation.” (labs.google) Google said each instruction in Omni builds on the last, with the system preserving character consistency, scene memory and physical coherence across edits. The company also said Omni Flash is rolling out not only to Flow, but to the Gemini app and YouTube Shorts. (blog.google) ### Where does Flow Music fit into this update? Google Labs says Flow Music lets users “chat with the producer inside Flow Music” to turn ideas into songs, music videos and other outputs. That language places Flow Music as the music-specific counterpart to Flow’s broader video and storytelling workspace. (blog.google) Google has been building toward that positioning for months. In a May 2026 post about a partnership with Believe, Google said Flow Music acts as a “creative collaborator” for lyrics, melodies, genres and new instruments, showing that the product was already moving beyond basic music generation before this week’s Omni update. (labs.google) ### Are the mobile apps actually available now? Google Flow Beta is listed on Google Play, where Google says users can create and refine stories “right from your phone.” The store listing identifies it as Google’s app and describes it as a mobile version of the company’s AI creative studio. (blog.google) Google Flow Music is listed on Apple’s App Store as an iPhone app from Google. The App Store description says users can “generate songs, edit with remix controls, direct music videos, and more.” Search results reviewed on May 20 also indicated staggered platform availability was being discussed in third-party coverage, but Google’s own app-store listings are the clearest public confirmation that the mobile rollout is underway. (play.google.com) ### How does this fit into Google’s broader I/O push? Google’s I/O 2026 materials grouped the Flow and Flow Music update with a wider set of Gemini announcements released on May 19. In the same collection, Google introduced Gemini Omni and described it as part of a broader push toward agent-based tools and multimodal creation. (apps.apple.com) Google’s next public checkpoints are already visible in its own product surfaces. The Flow app is on Google Play, Google Flow Music is on the App Store, and Google’s I/O 2026 collection links the Flow and Flow Music update alongside the broader Gemini Omni rollout announced on May 19. (play.google.com) (blog.google)