Image created with Flux Pro v1.1 Ultra. Image prompt: Giant “100” as pure white negative‑space cutout dominating the frame; minimalist poster style; camera sensor array and color checker peeking through the cutout; neutral gray backdrop; high contrast, crisp edges, soft studio light, no other text, no logos

“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

1/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367

FOCI: Trajectory Optimization on Gaussian Splats”” TL;DR: 1) collision measure between GS based on the overlap integral between Gaussians. 2) trajectory planning algorithm –> fully differentiable trajectories. 3) GPU implementation of the trajectory optimization. https://x.com/Almorgand/status/1960732725368766801

GenAI is accelerating spatial intelligence. Here are some results from a Large World Model developed by World Labs. The model generates permanently consistent 3D worlds from a single image that can be smoothly navigated in a web browser. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1960385533923749924

Generative AI is really cool but sometimes you want to drift your car through an intersection in a super specific way. Draw a spline then get 3D onion skinning so you can adjust the curves with a clear spatial reference. iCars plugin for Blender: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1958982936172134410

MindJourney enables AI to explore simulated 3D worlds to improve spatial interpretation – Microsoft Research https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mindjourney-enables-ai-to-explore-simulated-3d-worlds-to-improve-spatial-interpretation/

TINKER: Diffusion’s Gift to 3D–Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization”” TLDR: TINKER achieves generalizable 3D editing with one or few inputs without per-scene optimization. https://x.com/Almorgand/status/1958884433643065510

Using 3d gaussian splats to stabilize shaky handheld footage — giving you the ultimate hyper lapse. New ai research (LongSplat) https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1960088618174648341

World labs image-to-3D scene tech. Consistent AI environments are about to get a lot easier. Been playing w/ the private beta and it’s getting really good. Since it’s 3DGS, you can connect multiple scenes together and bring it to life in any 3D tool. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1958908913631600718

📢 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

Pricing $30 per 1M output tokens One image is about 1290 tokens –> 0.039$ per image”” / X https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1960344569356431634

at least we can all agree, this is the worst style of art ever made https://x.com/onionweigher/status/1960210909629944048

🍌🍌🍌”” / 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

🧸Turn your favorite memes into real-world collectibles — one click with Qwen-Image-Edit. 🎁Try it now: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1959507306774999389

🪂 Qwen-Image-Edit is now live on chutes. Absolutely epic model. Playground needs a couple updates to work but you can use it in the API right now, takes minimally “”prompt”” and “”image_b64″” fields as inputs, other args optional. https://x.com/jon_durbin/status/1959230037036519724

🚀 Excited to introduce Qwen-Image-Edit! Built on 20B Qwen-Image, it brings precise bilingual text editing (Chinese & English) while preserving style, and supports both semantic and appearance-level editing. ✨ Key Features ✅ Accurate text editing with bilingual support ✅ https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1957500569029079083

Qwen Edit is so good at outpainting https://x.com/linoy_tsaban/status/1959989758475780523

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