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Google launches Nano Banana 2 with Pro-level reasoning at Flash speeds

Prompt: «A brightly colored image of Museum Clos Lucé in the style of synthetic cubism.» (Picture: Google)
Rolling out across the entire Gemini landscape today, the new image generator offers «advanced world knowledge» powered by Gemini 3.

That should make it able to use web searches and other images in order to understand and reason its way into better pictures.

Like with Nano Banana Pro, you could create diagrams from notes, make infographics from text, and «generate data visualizations,» only a whole lot faster — and cheaper.

It should also be better at subject consistency, more precise in following instructions and can create high fidelity images at up to 4K resolutions.

It instantly leapt to the top of LMArena’s (now just arena.ai) text-to-image leaderboard.

Read more: Google’s presentation. Writeups on 9to5Google, Ars Technica, and TechCrunch.

Google introduces «Me Meme» to put yourself in a meme in Photos

Meme culture peaked in 2012, and now Google are putting out a meme function for photos. (Picture: reddit, Shadow_Strike99)
Google Photos has a new feature where you can take any one of your photos and turn them into a meme.

The feature works best with well-lit portraits, and uses Nano Bana to create «funny, personalized images.»

All you need is to select a template (which are already available in the app), choose a photo and click on Me Meme, available through the Create button. You can then share it widely right from the app.

The feature launched just before the weekend, and so far it doesn’t seem to have the viral uptake Google might have hoped for.

Memes are so 2012, after all.

Read more: Google’s announcement, TechCrunch, Mashable.

Nano Banana arrives in Google Photos

Nono Bana has arrived in Google Photos, letting you conversationally edit your picutres.
You can now use natural language editing of your Google Photos, and get instant results — thanks to Nano Banana. (Picture: Google)
Google has announced a whole slew of AI features for the Photos app — bringing it up to date with their latest «conversational» image generator.

You can now ask the app to remove sunglasses in photos or fix a smile, but it can also respond to names you have tagged in your pictures, such as «make Engel smile.»

«Help me edit»
You can use the «Help me edit»-button in the editor and simply describe the style you want your pics to be in, from a Renaissance portrait to a picture from a children’s story book.

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Rumor roundup for Monday, November 10.

(picture: Adobe)
Not much to publish today. There are, however, lots of rumors on the grapevine:

There’s talk about Google deprecating models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and its whole family by the end of November to make way for the upcoming Gemini 3.0, said by CEO Sundar Pichai to arrive this year. Many say a preview is launching soon.

There is even a purported leak of Nano Bana 2, the next generation of Gemini’s image generator, and a lot of people are blown out of the water by it.

Some people are also claiming to have spotted GPT-5.1 in OpenAI source code, which could mean we are getting closer to release of that model, too.

Then rumor has it that the new Kimi 2 model from China, said to have been developed for a paltry 4.6 million dollars, is going head to head with GPT-5 in a benchmark collection. It’s made by a company called Moonshot that is backed by Alibaba.

None of this is confirmed news, though, and I’ll be closely watching for anything official, which might be coming sooner than we think.

Friday roundup: Unis hiring AI officers, OpenAI on jobs and Nano Banana

Broadcom touts a $10 billion order from a mystery client, believed to be OpenAI.
Not much is known about the custom chips Broadcom will make for OpenAI, scheduled for next year. (Picture: Adobe)

OpenAI will make custom chips with Broadcom
With Nvidia lurking in the background, more companies are working on their custom AI chips. Now OpenAI has entered the fray, said to produce their own chips with Broadcom next year. It will be for internal use, and won’t be released broadly. They have a long history with this, having first entered talks with TSMC last year. Broadcom said on its earnings call this Thursday that it had secured a $10B order for AI chips without naming from whom, and now the Financial Times is reporting that it is, indeed, OpenAI, who has no comment on this.
More at: Financial Times (Paywalled) and Reuters.

Amazon lens lets you shop for anything you can see
The latest feature in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS lets you simply point your camera on anything you like, and shop for the same or similar items in real-time. It partners with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, to also answer questions about the products in the shop. It should «roll out to more customers in the coming weeks,» meaning there’s likely an Android version in the works.
More at: Amazon’s product page, and The Verge.

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Google unveils «nano banana» as a state-of-the-art image generator

Imagination is the limit with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, which sports better character accuracy across scenes.
Butterfly dress in an NYC scene? No problem with nano banana. (Picture: Google)
After catching buzz on social media, the new generator was uncloaked as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — and instantly landed on top of the leaderboards.

The trick to creating believable artificial images is to preserve the realism and character consistency across edits, Google says — and the new model has a «particular focus on maintaining a character’s likeness from one image to the next.»

Available in the Gemini app for free, it fares especially better than the competition on image editing and changing the scenery of a photo.

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