Google has launched its new picture era mannequin, the Nano Banana 2, which is powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Picture. The corporate says the brand new mannequin has the capabilities, world data and reasoning of Nano Banana Professional, however it may well accomplish duties at “lightning-fast pace.” That allows speedy modifying and the short creation of varied iterations utilizing a single immediate.
Nano Banana 2 will give extra folks entry to capabilities that had been beforehand unique to the Professional mannequin. That features Professional’s capability to tug real-time data and pictures from internet searches to create, say, infographics and diagrams. It’s going to additionally have the ability to generate texts on pictures for advertising supplies and greeting playing cards.
Google says Nano Banana 2 can keep character resemblance for as much as 5 characters in a single workflow, which could possibly be particularly beneficial when you’re utilizing it to create storyboards or visible tales. It may well observe exact directions for complicated requests, as effectively, and might generate enter with as much as 4K in decision with richer textures and sharper particulars than its predecessors might.
Nano Banana Professional might already generate pictures so real looking, it’s nearly unattainable to inform that they had been AI-generated. Google even needed to restrict its use resulting from excessive demand. Whether or not Nano Banana 2 can generate pictures which can be markedly higher than what Professional might create — and whether or not we might nonetheless inform if a picture was made by AI — stays to be seen. The brand new mannequin will substitute Nano Banana Professional within the Gemini app, however Google AI Professional and Extremely subscribers will retain entry to Nano Banana Professional for specialised duties. It’s going to even be the default mannequin in Seek for AI Mode and Lens, in addition to in Google’s Circulation AI inventive studio.
