Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
General summary
Google DeepMind is launching Nano Banana 2, a new image model that combines the advanced features of Nano Banana Pro with the speed of Gemini Flash. You can now access high-quality image generation with faster editing and iteration across Google products like the Gemini app and Google Search. Also, Google continues to improve its SynthID technology with C2PA Content Credentials to identify AI-generated content.
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Bullet points
- "Nano Banana 2" combines the best of Google's image models: speed and advanced capabilities.
- Nano Banana 2 brings Gemini Flash's speed to image generation, enabling rapid edits.
- Enjoy enhanced creative control with subject consistency and precise instruction following.
- Nano Banana 2 is rolling out across Google products like Gemini, Search, and Ads.
- Google is improving AI image identification with SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials.
Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental.
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Google has a new AI image model called Nano Banana 2. It's super fast and combines the best parts of their other image models. You can now make images quicker with better quality and more control. It's available in Google apps like Gemini and even for creating ads.
Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental.
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In August of last year, our Gemini Image model, Nano Banana, became a viral sensation, redefining image generation and editing. Then in November, we released Nano Banana Pro, offering users advanced intelligence and studio-quality creative control. Today, we’re bringing the best of both worlds to users across Google.
Introducing Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), our latest state-of-the-art image model. Now you can get the advanced world knowledge, quality and reasoning you love in Nano Banana Pro, at lightning-fast speed.
Intelligence and visual quality at Flash speed
Nano Banana 2 brings the high-speed intelligence of Gemini Flash to visual generation, making rapid edits and iteration possible. It makes once-exclusive Pro features accessible to a wider audience, including:
- Advanced world knowledge: The model pulls from Gemini’s real-world knowledge base, and is powered by real-time information and images from web search to more accurately render specific subjects. This deep understanding also helps you create infographics, turn notes into diagrams and generate data visualizations.
- Precision text rendering and translation: Nano Banana 2 allows you to generate accurate, legible text for marketing mockups or greeting cards. You can even translate and localize text within an image to share your ideas globally.
A flat lay infographic depicting the water cycle
Triptych infographic comparing cloud types
Museum Clos Lucé in Synthetic Cubism style
Localized "Native Wildlife" sign
Enhanced creative control
Nano Banana 2 also dramatically closes the gap between speed and visual fidelity, delivering high-quality, photorealistic imagery. Here’s what our newest model offers and has improved on from the original Nano Banana:
- Subject consistency: Maintain character resemblance of up to five characters and the fidelity of up to 14 objects in a single workflow, allowing you to storyboard and build narratives without altering the appearance of your inputs.
- Precise instruction following: With enhanced instruction following, the model adheres more strictly to your complex requests, capturing the specific nuances of your idea so the image you get is the image you asked for.
- Production-ready specs: Make attention grabbing assets with full control of various aspect ratios and resolutions from 512px to 4K, ensuring your visuals stay sharp whether they are for a vertical social post or a wide-screen backdrop.
- Visual fidelity upgrade: Nano Banana 2 delivers vibrant lighting, richer textures and sharper details, maintaining high-quality aesthetics at the speed expected from Flash.
Joyful characters and items at a farm
Fluffy friends building a treehouse
Misty panoramic aerial shot of a verdant valley
Highly stylized pop-art fashion portrait in different aspect ratios
Try Nano Banana 2 today
Whatever your needs, we now offer the perfect tool for every workflow: Nano Banana Pro for high-fidelity tasks requiring maximum factual accuracy, or Nano Banana 2 for rapid generation, precise instruction following and integrated image-search grounding.
Nano Banana 2 is rolling out today across Google products, including:
- Gemini app: Nano Banana 2 will replace Nano Banana Pro across the Fast, Thinking and Pro models. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will keep access to Nano Banana Pro for specialized tasks by regenerating images via the three-dot menu.
- Search: In AI Mode and Lens, through the Google app as well as mobile and desktop browsers. View availability here, including 141 new countries and territories and eight additional languages.
- AI Studio + API: Available in preview in AI Studio and Gemini API. Pricing here. Also available in Google Antigravity.
- Google Cloud: Available in preview with the Gemini API in Vertex AI.
- Flow: Nano Banana 2 is the new default image generation model in Flow, available to all Flow users for zero credits.
- Google Ads: Nano Banana 2 is available now, powering suggestions while creating campaigns in Google Ads.
Try Nano Banana 2 in the Gemini app, using the new templates feature.
World knowledge from Nano Banana 2 in AI Mode in Search.
Subject preservation from Nano Banana 2 in Flow.
Robust provenance: marking and verification
As generative media evolves, so must the tools we use to identify and understand it. We continue to deepen our provenance approach, by coupling our state-of-the-art SynthID technology with interoperable C2PA Content Credentials, we provide users with a more holistic and contextual view of not just if AI was used, but how.
Our provenance tools are already making an impact. Since its launch in November, our SynthID verification feature in Gemini app has been used over 20 million times across various languages, helping people identify Google AI-generated images, video and audio. We’ll soon be bringing C2PA verification to the Gemini app, too.
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