YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced a slate of new artificial intelligence features coming to the platform at a promotional event Wednesday. Mohan, speaking at Google’s Manhattan office, said that the new generative AI features,

Veo, an update to last year's Dream Screen, made in collaboration with Google DeepMind, uses AI to generate videos and images that can then be integrated into YouTube Shorts. At t

Creators can make AI-generated backgrounds later this year, and upload them to videos through a green-screen-style feature. Complete video clips (up to six seconds) will follow in 2025.

YouTube will start showing ads to users – even when they’re not actually watching videos. The “pause ads” will show when viewers stop in the middle of a video, the company said.

Google is bringing more ads to YouTube, as you'll see them when you pause video playback - here's why that's not a bad idea.

Now, YouTube confirms advertisers can broadly target your paused screentime: “As we’ve seen both strong advertiser and strong viewer response, we’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers,” YouTube comms manager Oluwa Falodun confirms to The Verge.