Google has launched the subsequent iteration of its Nano Banana synthetic intelligence-powered visible era mannequin with Nano Banana 2, which contains varied picture era instruments right into a single, extra highly effective platform.
With Nano Banana 2 (additionally known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Picture), Google has merged the capabilities of its Nano Banana and Nano Banana Professional fashions, bringing its most superior picture era instruments right into a single app. Google mentioned Nano Banana 2 will facilitate superior world information, high quality and reasoning inside its picture era capability, and achieve this at lightning-fast velocity.
As per Google: “[Nano Banana 2] pulls from Gemini’s real-world information base, and is powered by real-time info and pictures from internet search to extra precisely render particular topics. This deep understanding additionally helps you create infographics, flip notes into diagrams and generate information visualizations.”
Google mentioned Nano Banana 2 may even be capable to generate correct, legible textual content for advertising and marketing mock-ups or greeting playing cards, in addition to translate and localize textual content inside a picture.
The up to date mannequin additionally contains extra particular controls, in order that social media entrepreneurs can edit and replace outputs as required to create extra constant, custom-made visuals.
Google mentioned Nano Banana 2 can preserve character resemblance of as much as 5 characters, in addition to the constancy of as much as 14 objects in a single workflow. In the meantime, the mannequin can be in a position to adhere extra strictly to advanced requests, “capturing the particular nuances of your thought so the picture you get is the picture you requested for.”
Customers may even be capable to management the facet ratios and resolutions of their outputs. As well as, Nano Banana 2 will present richer textures and sharper particulars in generated content material.
There are additionally new templates for various purposes, together with promotional pictures, and particular instruments to assist advertisers generate higher visuals for campaigns.
It might be a useful software, using Google’s evolving AI era fashions to create extra standout, realistic-looking imagery. Nonetheless, the shift away from extra human-based, genuine interplay and engagement has not been a winner on all fronts, and types do want to pay attention to the potential downfalls of such in their very own AI generations.
There may be an inherent danger in manufacturers utilizing AI-generated content material for advertising and marketing, in that some viewers may have a detrimental response to the synthetic generations. AI visuals also can make it look like manufacturers are attempting to chop corners by utilizing AI instruments, versus hiring actual creators (and in the event that they’d be prepared to chop prices right here, the place else will the model be trying to lower corners?). There have additionally been growing reviews of broader backlash and detrimental responses to the deluge of AI-generated supplies.
Certainly, a latest examine revealed by Science Direct discovered that “clients understand corporations utilizing AI-generated pictures as impersonal, much less skilled, missing credibility, and doubtlessly deceptive, as they impede clients’ capability to check the precise expertise.”
Google itself was compelled to change its strategy to AI in promoting in 2024, after client backlash to an advert that depicted a father explaining how he requested Google’s Gemini AI bot to assist his daughter write a letter to American Olympic hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
However extra correct, realistic-looking depictions will assist with that, and Google mentioned Nano Banana 2 can produce higher visuals alongside these traces.
Nano Banana 2 is rolling out Feb. 26 throughout Google merchandise, together with the Gemini app, AI Mode in Google Search, Circulation and Google Advertisements.
