Meet Vids, Google's new AI-powered editor for the videos you hate to make

If you've ever used Microsoft's own Clipchamp video editor, Google would like you to know that you now have another alternative: Google Vids, which will leverage Google's powers of AI with your own documents to create short videos. Google thinks highly enough of Vids that it will elevate it into the pantheon of other Google Workspace apps, including Docs, Slides, and Sheets, the company said. For whatever reason, Google isn't directly challenging Clipchamp, Microsoft's rather delightful video editor, or Canva, another video and graphic content-creation tool that has emerged as a popular alternative and with AI-generated content. Instead, it's essentially treating video as one of those business tasks that has to be done, but doesn't require a lot of creativity -- like a training video or customer testimonial. Vids, then, looks pretty familiar.