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Posted on 11/20/2025 8:48:10 AM PST by Red Badger
Key Points
* Google announced the latest model of its AI image generation and editing tool, Nano Banana Pro.
* The Nano Banana Pro is built on Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, which launched two days prior.
* The original Nano Banana rolled out in August and went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into 3D figurines.
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Google on Thursday rolled out Nano Banana Pro, its latest image editing and generation tool, continuing the company’s momentum after launching its new Gemini artificial intelligence model earlier this week.
The product is built on Gemini 3 Pro, which was announced on Tuesday and contributed to record-breaking stock highs.
Alphabet’s stock was up 4% Thursday.
Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, told CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa that the Nano Banana Pro’s capabilities expand beyond its original iteration, which launched in late August.
“It’s incredible at infographics. It can make slide decks. It can take up to 14 different images, or five different characters, and sort of keep that character consistency,” he said.
He added that internal users have experimented with the feature by inputting code snippets and even LinkedIn resumes to create infographics.
“I think this ability to visualize things that were previously maybe not something you would think of as a visual medium that tends to be one of the magic things people are finding with it,” Woodward said.
The original Nano Banana went viral on social media as users turned photos of themselves or their pets into hyperrealistic 3D figurines. Woodward wrote in an X post in September that the product helped add 13 million new users to the Gemini app in the span of four days.
Nano Banana Pro is currently available in the Gemini app, with limited free quotas, Google’s writing assistant, NotebookLM, as well as the company’s developer, enterprise and advertising products.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will have access to the product in Google’s search features AI Mode.
The feature will later also roll out to Ultra subscribers first in Flow, Google’s AI filmmaking tool.
Google introduced another feature in the Gemini app that allows users to upload any image to find out if it was generated by Google AI.
Images generated on free Nano Banana accounts will have a watermark, but it will be removed for Google AI Ultra tier subscribers.
Google has been working to gain ground on OpenAI in the generative AI race, which ignited after the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
Last week, OpenAI announced two updates to its GPT-5 model to make it “warmer by default and more conversational” as well as ” more efficient and easier to understand in everyday use,” the company said.
ChatGPT currently tops the list of free apps on Apple’s App Store, with Gemini in the second spot.
The Gemini app currently has over 650 million monthly active users per month, and Gemini-powered AI Overviews has 2 billion monthly users, Google said in a release. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in October that ChatGPT had reached 800 million weekly active users.
Woodward said Google AI products have had growing demand, with many users signing up for Gemini’s subscription plan to have “higher limits with some of these advanced models.”
“We’re seeing high numbers of people coming to lots of these products,” he said. “That’s really the best problem to have, is there’s a lot of demand, and we’re trying to figure out actually how to serve it.”
The company is looking to continue scaling its AI offerings, Woodward said, highlighting Flow, Google’s AI filmmaking tool, and Genie, a “world building” model that is currently available as a limited research preview.
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Tech Ping!...................
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley Bo-ber-ley
Nano Banana Pro-fer-ley
Shirley!
It seems to me that all these ‘AI’ programs will eventually ‘MERGE’ of their own accord and humanity will be powerless to stop them............
Nano Banana was named in honor of Epstein.
Yes, we have Nano Bananas..................
Nope.
Too many big egos and vast amounts of money involved from people who don’t like each other much.
Do they have them in Savannah?
YouTube videos covering numerous subject areas are now saturated with AI-generated videos. And the accompanying audio suspiciously sounds like it’s AI-generated.
It’s like someone (or maybe AI itself) came up with a topic and a point or two, then AI generates and posts the video on YouTube.
The images or videos are not quite correct or have a staged appearance, often with flaws in some of the details. Sometimes the audio has an unnatural, slight pause between an adjective and noun in a sentence. And a sentence or two are often repeated later in the video.
And the interrupting ads are saturated with enough DEI to make one puke.
YouTube videos covering numerous subject areas are now saturated with AI-generated videos. And the accompanying audio suspiciously sounds like it’s AI-generated.
I watched one the other day, and instead of saying “1945”, as in the year “Nineteen Forty Five”, it said “One thousand nine hundred and forty five.”
I just want AI to sort my taxes and sort my emails. BUT YES, As with most things tech related, it will just turn in to porn.
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