Google Ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash With 40-Second Scene Extension, 4K Upscaling and Third-Cost 360p Drafts

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Google announced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on 2026-08-27, adding scene extension in 10-second increments to a cumulative 40 seconds with the model reading 10 seconds of prior context (earlier Omni releases referenced only the final second), first-and-last-frame interpolation, and upscaling to 1080p or 4K. A 360p draft mode renders up to 60% faster at roughly a third the cost of 720p, which gives video pipelines the cheap-draft/expensive-final split. It is live through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, with Adobe Firefly, Figma Weave and GMI Cloud already shipping it.