The model is incredibly good at editing images
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe author’s dog Lance in Paris surrounded by bananas. AI image by the author via Nano Banana
Google has a knack for assigning strange names to its products.
Its original LLM was named Bard — a thinly-veiled Shakespeare reference that was quickly dropped in favor of the techier-sounding Gemini.
AI Overviews — an industry-shaking technology — was originally the clunky Search Generative Experience. And don’t even get me started about EEAT.
Google’s newest AI image generator, though, takes the cake. It’s named Nano Banana — a moniker that Google is already apparently walking back, as all references to the original name have been scrubbed from the release notes.
With such a bizarre name, at least Nano Banana has a saving grace — it’s insanely good.
Specifically, Nano Banana excels at editing existing images, rather than simply summoning new ones out of the AI ether.
I put the new model through its paces and tested its insane image editing capabilities.
