YouTube AI Makes Shorts Faster and Smarter 🤖

New AI Tools Speed Up Shorts Creation

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Samantha Vale
September 18, 2025

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Hey there, Tech Trailblazers! 🤖✨

YouTube just rolled out new AI tools for Shorts that trade heavy editing for speed, including Veo 3 Fast, which can generate 480p clips with sound almost instantly, the first time audio is added to Veo-made Shorts.

Creators also get Edit with AI, which assembles rough cuts with transitions, music, and interactive voiceovers. New features like motion transfer, object insertion, text styling, and Speech to Song Remixing (powered by DeepMind’s Lyria 2) are now testing in the US, with a wider rollout coming soon.

📰 Upcoming in this issue

  • 🎬 YouTube’s New AI Makes Shorts Faster and Smarter

  • 🎬 Adobe Firefly Adds Ray3, First AI Video With Native HDR

  • 🧬 Meet Delphi-2M, The AI That Predicts 1,000 Diseases

🎬 YouTube’s New AI Makes Shorts Faster and Smarter

YouTube’s new suite makes Shorts easier to produce. Veo 3 Fast delivers clips nearly instantly, and Edit with AI automates rough cuts.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🚀 Veo 3 Fast: Generates 480p Shorts with sound in seconds, lowering the barrier to creation.

  • 🎛️ Creative Toolkit: Motion transfer, text styling, object insertion, and Lyria 2’s Speech to Song Remix expand editing without timelines.

  • ✂️ Edit With AI: Assembles rough cuts with transitions, music, and interactive voiceovers. Launching soon in select markets.

  • 🏷️ Transparency and Rollout: AI Shorts carry labels and watermarks, with early availability in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

🎬 Adobe Firefly Adds Ray3, First AI Video With Native HDR

Adobe has integrated Luma’s Ray3 into Firefly, the first AI video model with native HDR. Early access runs for two weeks, with unlimited generations for paid plans until October 1.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🌈 Native HDR: Richer contrast, deeper shadows, and brighter highlights in professional formats.

  • ⏱️ Early Access: Firefly users get Ray3 first with unlimited generations until October 1.

  • 🎛️ Cinematic Control: Handles motion blur, crowds, anatomy, physics, and world detail with higher realism.

  • 🧰 Workflow Uses: Ideal for b-roll and boards, generating 10-second clips and brainstorming directly in Firefly Boards.

🧬 Meet Delphi-2M, The AI That Predicts 1,000 Diseases

Tom’s Guide highlights Delphi-2M, an AI model that estimates risk across 1,000 conditions in seconds. It hints at applications in personalized prevention and early warning systems.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🧠 Broad Coverage: Flags risks across a wide range of diseases, surfacing signals before symptoms appear.

  • 📊 Data-Driven Method: Leverages large health datasets, translating results into plain-language insights.

  • 🔒 Privacy Questions: Safeguards exist, but data security, consent, and bias remain critical.

  • 🏥 Clinical Potential: Designed to support triage and prevention, complementing doctors rather than replacing them.

Why It Matters

Faster creation changes the math on time and cost. Rough cuts and effects now take minutes instead of hours. Labels and watermarks help manage reputational risk as AI content scales. At the same time, new creative tools raise the bar for polish and consistency.

Early access in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand shows where the advantages will appear first. Teams that prepare for these tools now can stay credible and protect quality as Shorts competes more directly with TikTok and Instagram.

Until our next issue,

Samantha Vale
Editor-in-Chief
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