Image created with Flux Pro v1.1 Ultra. Image prompt: Giant “100” as pure white negative‑space cutout dominating the frame; minimalist poster style; knowledge‑graph nodes and a minimal query bar threaded through the zeros; primary‑color accents on white‑to‑gray backdrop; high contrast, crisp edges, soft studio light, no other text, no logos
Piloting Claude for Chrome \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome
We’ve developed Claude for Chrome, where Claude works directly in your browser and takes actions on your behalf. We’re releasing it at first as a research preview to 1,000 users, so we can gather real-world insights on how it’s used. https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1960417002469908903
Gemini Live updates: More Google app connections and visual help https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-live-updates-august-2025/
Two big updates to the Responses API today. 🖇️ Connectors — Pull context from Gmail, Google Calendar, Dropbox, and more in a single API call. 💬 Conversations — Persist chat threads for your users, without running your own database. More below:”” / X https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1958660207745409120
Google Translate adds live translation and language learning https://blog.google/products/translate/language-learning-live-translate/
Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html
“Put this shirt on him” Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Previously nano-banana https://x.com/skirano/status/1960343968320737397
🍌 nano banana is here → gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview – SOTA image generation and editing – incredible character consistency – lightning fast available in preview in AI Studio and the Gemini API https://x.com/googleaistudio/status/1960344388560904213
🚨🍌Big Reveal: who was “”Nano Banana?”” The anonymous model, “nano-banana,” that caught the world’s attention with its ability to follow complex instructions, preserve character identity, and maintain contextual details was: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview by @GoogleDeepMind 🍌✨ https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1960342813599760516
🚨🍌Breaking News: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview (“nano-banana”) by @GoogleDeepMind now ranks #1 in Image Edit Arena. In just two weeks: 🟡“nano-banana” has driven over 5 million community votes in the Arena 🟡Record-breaking 2.5M+ votes casted for this model alone 🟡It has https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1960343469370884462
A conversation with some of the research folks behind nano-banana 🍌 (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) on how we got here, what it took to build this model, and where we go next! So much fun to hang with: @19kaushiks @robertriachi @m__dehghani @nbrichtova https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1960725463694753930
An example of the new Google image generator. I gave it a random picture I took: “”make this a napoleon crochet book instead”” (note it made changes in consistent style) “”there should be a tiny sheep hidden among the blue yarn on the shelf to the right”” “”you misspelled Napoleon”” https://x.com/emollick/status/1960368483754992051
Edit your photos to match your imagination with a new image editing model, now available in the @GeminiApp 🖼️ Learn more ⬇️”” / X https://x.com/Google/status/1960342356881723469
First time I’ve seen Google’s blog unable to handle the traffic. Anyway, proud to be a launch partner with @GoogleDeepMind for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the first image-gen model on @OpenRouterAI! https://x.com/xanderatallah/status/1960358164693438934
Gemini / Nano Banana shows **remarkable** spacial understanding of images. I recursively asked it to “”make an image of the guy taking the photo”” (of the previous photo) Each time it adds a guy, it **gets their POV correct**, where they would actually be to capture it. https://x.com/BenjaminDEKR/status/1960566924884029539
Gemini 2.5 Flash creates an actually mildly amusing New Yorker cartoon. (As far as I can tell, this is the first time that this joke has been used) https://x.com/emollick/status/1960574571255304334
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano-Banana) takes the crown as the leading image editing model, beating GPT-4o and Qwen-Image-Edit in the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena! We were given early access and have been testing it in our arena under the pseudonym ‘rex’ for the https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1960388401401880898
i put nano banana into a browser extension so you can remix and edit any image on the web by just going right-click + prompt link below https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1960649240100647278
Image generation with Gemini just got a bananas upgrade and is the new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. 🤯 From photorealistic masterpieces to mind-bending fantasy worlds, you can now natively produce, edit and refine visuals with new levels of reasoning, https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1960341906790957283
Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), our SOTA image generation and editing model 🍌 As you might have already seen, this model excels at character consistency, creative edits, and has Gemini’s world knowledge! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1960343135436906754
Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview, our best image generation and editing model! With conversational editing, multi-image composition. Test it now in @googleaistudio! 🍌 🎉 – Maintain character consistency across multiple prompts and images. – Targeted edits/replacing https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1960344024151199765
Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our state-of-the-art image model – Google Developers Blog https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/
love these “”what does the red arrow see”” google maps transforms with nano-banana https://x.com/tokumin/status/1960583251460022626
Nano Banana Hackathon 🍌 2 Days API Free Tier Prizes & Credits Other cool Gemini stuff : ) See you next week, it’s time to build!!!”” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1961127857192673540
Nano banana is a genuinely impressive jump forward in AI image generation, a field I have followed closely. Whenever it is officially released, by whichever firm created it, I think it will have a significant impact on the applicability of AI image generation for real-world tasks”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1959727818255765933
Nano banana turns out to be Gemini Flash 2.5 Image Generation (not quite as catchy a name). I had a bit of early access, first through the same LMArena link everyone had, then privately. It is impressive, crossing a threshold that goes beyond toy (though is a pretty fun toy too) https://x.com/emollick/status/1960344601023168529
Nano Banana: Image editing in Google Gemini gets a major upgrade https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/
Not sure what happened at the end😱 Gemini 2.5 Flash gives us some interesting angles from a single image, while Kling 2.1’s first and last frames deliver those smooth transitions. https://x.com/heyglif/status/1960760956692136425
Ruining art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. (These are all the prompts, in their entirety) “”make this painting less gloomy”” “”it is still pretty disturbing, make it less gloomy emotionally”” “”even less gloomy”” https://x.com/emollick/status/1960717000092549349
Ruining even more art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. https://x.com/emollick/status/1960752417424990661
Since nano banana has gemini’s world knowledge, you can just upload screenshots of the real world and ask it to annotate stuff for you. “”you are a location-based AR experience generator. highlight [point of interest] in this image and annotate relevant information about it.”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1960529167742853378
The new Gemini 2.5 image model🍌is by far the best out there with a whopping +180 ELO point lead in image editing & it really excels at character consistency. Available for free in the @GeminiApp right now. Try uploading an image & playing around with it, it’s pretty amazing! https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1960355658059891018
Two things I love coming together: Liverpool and Theme Park. From map to graphic – Nano-Banana is 🔥. Going to have to make a new isometric game, can’t resist… https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1961077016830083103
We’ve created a new prompting guide for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image to help you build solutions that use the model’s key capabilities like creative composition, consistent character design, targeted transformations, and more. Read the guide: https://x.com/googleaidevs/status/1960765662202061223
We’ve just upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash image generation & editing! 🍌🍌🍌 Besides topping leaderboards, it topped my model usage this month. It keeps subjects consistent, you can make precise edits & combine creative elements. Have fun with it @GeminiApp @GoogleAIStudio https://x.com/OriolVinyalsML/status/1960343791283433842
We’ve tested hundreds of models at lmarena… never before has model hype brought in 2 MILLION new chats in one day. 🍌 nano banana by @GoogleDeepMind is here. https://x.com/cdngdev/status/1960355432037560697
Yes gemini 2.5 flash is bananas. Had early access for a bit and the spatial consistency + character coherence is impressive. The bigger deal here is that entire Photoshop & ComfyUI workflows are being collapsed down to a prompt. Closest thing we have to an image editor as an https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1960377889112862766
Gemini for Government – brings together the best of Google’s AI-optimized & accredited commercial cloud, SOTA Gemini models, and agentic solutions to support the missions of government agencies! All for less than $0.50 per agency : )”” / X https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1958549753148408045
Google DeepMind researchers say world models allow robotic agents to learn and plan in simulated environments, cutting real-world risks and costs. Robots can also potentially experience and learn rare scenarios in a world model, like Halloween crowds. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1958614223178932474
Hey AI, give me a clever, moving one paragraph story about a paradox, in any genre you desire. make it good”” These are the first attempts. A bit of the obvious time travel tales from Gemini and Grok. Claude loves to pull on your emotions. GPT-5 Pro goes in a stranger direction. https://x.com/emollick/status/1959817825729781837
YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
Apple in talks to use Google’s Gemini AI to power revamped Siri, Bloomberg News reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-talks-use-googles-gemini-ai-power-revamped-siri-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-08-22/
Simulations are the future, & one of the main tools we’ll ultimately use to understand and predict things about the universe. This is why I’m so excited about Genie 3, our latest interactive world simulator – here are some insanely cool things you might have missed about it 🧵: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1958696882105995312
Google presents for the first time ever their TPUv7 block diagram at hot chips conference. TPUv7 (formerly known as TPUv6p, internally called ghostfish) has 8 stacks of HBM3e memory, 4 medium size systolic arrays and be connected in a 3D torus with a scale up world size of up to https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/1960424664741634094
We have data on the environmental impact per AI prompt: Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL …the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year. https://x.com/emollick/status/1958742855876227348
Build a market research agent with Gemini and @aisdk by Vercel. Learn how to research trends with Google Search, extract structured data into charts, and generate a final PDF report. https://x.com/googleaidevs/status/1958197342483472612
Google announces Gemini for Home | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/762370/google-announces-gemini-for-home-nest-smart-speakers-voice-assistant
Native world knowledge Gemini’s world knowledge is a huge unlock here. Watch this interactive education tutor built with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Source: https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1960347789637878171
Google’s NotebookLM updates Audio and Video Overviews https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebook-lm-audio-video-overviews-more-languages-longer-content/
AI is getting REALLY meta. Genie 3 builds a simulation of reality by digesting YouTube. SIMA agent learns inside of it. Repeat. Your robots will be dreaming at night, reliving their mistakes, and figuring out how to do a better job next time. This world model tech really https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1959295692515541143
One interesting way to understand or fact-check claims is to ask an AI to make a simulation of a process and see if it makes sense. “”Gemini 2.5 (with Canvas on), create a simulation showing this feedback loop”’ https://x.com/emollick/status/1959363417858351125
📢 New Model Drop: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is now on Yupp! The latest from @GoogleDeepMind lets you natively create and iterate consistent visuals with a high level of control. We gave it a spin with a few prompts: https://x.com/yupp_ai/status/1960345648424800750
Direct link to aistudio and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview: https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1960344026437026056
It’s a good model sir. And it’s like $.03 / image ($30/1M tokens).”” / X https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/1960345460067148128
vibe coding live with @kat_kampf, @ammaar, and nano-banana at 10 am pt, see you there!! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1960365102940500100
open source nano banana? bytedance just dropped USO, an open source editing model that… just works https://x.com/multimodalart/status/1961147988258295893
i don’t want much. i just want nano banana for video.”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1958666988043346175
Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/google-pays-30m-to-settle-lawsuit-over-childrens-youtube-data/
Gemini CLI 🤝🏻 @zeddotdev! We merged 145+ PRs from 55+ unique contributors across the CLI and GitHub Action. After VS Code, Gemini CLI is now integrated directly into the Zed code editor! – fully integrated experience into Zed’s Agent Panel (ConradIrwin) – Introduced automatic https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1961090847174262937
Meet Google Pixel 10 Pro With Gemini | The New Status Pro – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3lqOEM6Zig&t=1s
Meet Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL. Powered by our new Google Tensor G5 chip and our latest Gemini Nano model, they’re our most personalized, proactive and helpful Pixel phones ever. #MadeByGoogle https://x.com/Google/status/1958218360207921374
A New, Personalized Health Coach is Coming to Fitbit – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Az-rDDEuT8
Google previews personal health coach for Fitbit https://blog.google/products/fitbit/fitbit-ai-personal-health-coach-preview/
Good idea. Let’s double it for everyone. This weekend only, ending tomorrow (8/24) at 10pm PT: 👉 Gemini free users, you now have up to 6 free video generations for the weekend. 👉 Pro users, your pack has doubled to 6 per day for the weekend. 👉 Ultra users, your pack has”” / X https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1959408375869190466
New easy ways to create and edit videos with gen AI in Google Vids | Google Workspace Blog https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/create-and-edit-videos-with-gen-ai-in-google-vids
🍌🍌🍌”” / X https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1960340452604785008
Our image editing model is now rolling out in @Geminiapp – and yes, it’s 🍌🍌. Top of @lmarena’s image edit leaderboard, it’s especially good at maintaining likeness across different contexts. Check out a few of my dog Jeffree in honor of International Dog Day – though don’t let https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1960342316415087049
The people behind 🍌 magic!”” / X https://x.com/tulseedoshi/status/1961068980640108889
All the big labs pretrain on the ~same internet, but each has a secret sauce: OpenAI: reddit xAI: twitter Google: youtube Meta: instagram & facebook In the end, models mirror the cultures of the social media they grew up on.”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1961121746670817404
all model companies were pretraining on the ~same internet. of course, grok has access to twitter dataset and gemini can pretrain on youtube & so on. but it’s mostly the same internet otoh, rl envs will be w.e the lab chooses to prioritize. so you should expect more speciation”” / X https://x.com/tszzl/status/1960953564681134472
Veo 3 is now free for the weekend for everyone to try – can’t wait to see what you’ll create! 🎬”” / X https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1959070813317210260
