02/26/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/26/2026 10:43
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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.
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:
A flat lay infographic depicting the water cycle
Triptych infographic comparing cloud types
Museum Clos Lucé in Synthetic Cubism style
Localized "Native Wildlife" sign
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:
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
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:
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.
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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