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Recently, a new model, known as "nano banana," started making the rounds with impressive AI image abilities that landed it at the top of the LMArena leaderboard. Now, Google has revealed that nano banana is an innovation from Google DeepMind, and it's being rolled out to the Gemini app today.
AI image editing allows you to modify images with a prompt rather than having to use Photoshop. Google first provided editing capabilities in Gemini earlier this year, and the model was more than capable, straight out of the box.
But like all generative systems, the nature of AI meant that elements of the image would often change in unpredictable ways. Google says nano banana (technically Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has unequaled consistency across edits. They claim it can actually remember the details of the original picture, meaning you aren't rolling the dice every time you make a change.
Google suggests that uploading a photo of a person and changing their style or attire is possible, without their appearance changing. For example, you can reimagine someone as a matador or a '90s sitcom character, and because the nano banana model can maintain consistency through edits, the results should still look like the person in the original source image.
They claim that this is also the case when you make multiple edits in a row. Google says that even down the line, the results should look like the original source material.
Gemini's enhanced image editing can also merge multiple images, allowing you to use them as the basis for a new image of your choosing. Google's own example above takes separate images of a woman and a dog and uses them to generate a new snapshot of the dog getting cuddles—possibly the best use of generative AI yet.
Gemini image editing can also merge things in more abstract ways and will follow your prompts to create just about anything that doesn't run afoul of the model's guard rails.
As with other Google AI image-generation models, the output of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image always comes with a visible "AI" watermark in the corner.
You can give the new native image editing a shot today in the Gemini app.
Google says the new image model will also roll out soon in the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI for developers.
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