Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: 1980s NORAD war room with massive CRT wall display showing glowing blue wireframe network of interconnected search nodes with spreading red alarm indicators, dark operator silhouettes in foreground, large bold red ‘GOOGLE’ typography at top, cinematic lighting, high contrast blue amber and red color scheme, retro vector graphics aesthetic

ProducerAI: Your music creation partner, now in Google Labs https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/producerai/

Google launches AI literacy training for 6 million U.S. educators https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/teacher-ai-literacy-training/

🔍Let’s take a closer look at Text-to-Image subcategories and compare how the top 3 perform: Nano Banana 2 vs. GPT-Image-1.5 vs. Nano Banana Pro. Nano Banana 2 (Gemini-3.1-Flash-Image-Preview) largest gains over Nano Banana Pro (Gemini-3-Pro-Image-Preview-2k): – +71pts: 3D
https://x.com/arena/status/2027152296547930153

🚨BREAKING: Nano Banana 2 debuts at #1 in Image Arena, and it changes the game again 🍌🍌 Officially released as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, it is powered by real-time information and images from web search. Highlights: – #1 Text-to-Image scoring 1279, surpassing
https://x.com/arena/status/2027053222876393703

5️⃣ characters. Infinite storyboards. The model can expertly maintain the likeness of people, including faces, as well as up to 14 objects across different frames in a single workflow.
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2027051583628787880?s=20

Introducing Nano Banana 2: Our best image generation and editing model yet. 🍌 Pro-level quality, at Flash speed. Rolling out today across @GeminiApp, Search, and our developer and creativity tools.
https://x.com/Google/status/2027051657163391104

Nano Banana 2 brings visual creation to everyone. Our state-of-the-art image model delivers vibrant lighting, richer textures, sharper details — and more: ✅ Advanced world knowledge ✅ Precision text rendering and translation ✅ 512px to 4K upscaling ✅ Aspect ratio control ✅
https://x.com/Google/status/2027051660392944035

Nano Banana 2 is here. Our latest image model gives you the power of Pro at the speed of Flash. You can create images with real-world accuracy, add text in many languages, and bring your wildest ideas to life faster with vibrant lighting, richer textures and sharper details. 🧵
https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2027052041697464629

Nano Banana 2 is our new faster and better SOTA image generation & editing model! It uses Gemini’s amazing world understanding + grabs real-time info w/ search to create higher quality outputs. Available in @GeminiApp, @GoogleAIStudio, @FlowbyGoogle, Search & Vertex – enjoy!
https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2027063584094605732

Nano Banana 2 makes it easy to build out complex visuals – translating instructions into data-rich infographics or educational diagrams. 🌐 It even pulls from the Gemini model’s world knowledge base and uses real-time information from web search to render generations more
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2027051586518765887

Nano Banana 2: Google’s latest AI image generation model https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2: Google’s latest AI image generation model https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/#footnote-source-10

The 🍌is back! Introducing Nano Banana 2. It’s faster. It’s better at text across languages. It does aspect ratios, up to 6 images with character consistency, and uses real-world knowledge so it can visualize hyper-niche things. Try it in Gemini, enjoy!
https://x.com/joshwoodward/status/2027055559162450254

To kick off your creativity, here are some Nano Banana 2 prompts to try out. We hope you find them fruitful 🍌🍌 Prompt: Create a funny 4-part story featuring 3 fluffy creatures building a treehouse. The story has emotional highs and lows and ends in a happy moment. Maintain
https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2027094912357761319

We’re launching Nano Banana 2, built on the latest Gemini Flash model. 🍌 It’s state-of-the-art for creating and editing images, combining Pro-level capabilities with lightning-fast speed. 🧵
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2027051577899380991

Google’s Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) takes #1 in Text to Image in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena at half the price of Nano Banana Pro! Nano Banana 2 is the latest Flash-tier image model from @GoogleDeepMind , succeeding the original Nano Banana (Gemini
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2027052241019175148

With enhanced reasoning, Nano Banana 2 can carry out complex requests, capturing the specific nuances of your idea, just as you imagined it. 🧠
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2027051581300969755

how the fuck did Perplexity pull this off? this is impressive tbh: – Perplexity launching on 100Ms Samsung phones this year becoming the DEFAULT AI ASSISTANT (where the fuck is google???): – will power the AI and agent functions for Bixby (samsung’s siri) across any app,
https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/2027131287283040488?s=46

Perplexity is now integrated into all Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. Every S26 device will have Perplexity pre-loaded with the wake word “”Hey Plex””. The devices come with three assistants: Perplexity, Bixby, Gemini. Bixby will also be powered by Perplexity’s search-grounded LLMs.
https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2027068958541799749

Their new AI assistant, Bixby, uses Perplexity API’s for complex, web‑based, or generative queries on 800M devices in 2026. Bixby handles all on-device actions while routing any research, questions, and tasks to Perplexity in the background.
https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2027067800825872454

This launch is part of a broader partnership with Samsung, with Samsung Internet up next. Samsung will use our APIs for browser control and offer Perplexity as an optional default search engine, similar to how Mozilla lets you choose search providers.
https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2027067812494364902

We’ve partnered with Samsung to bring Perplexity directly into the upcoming Galaxy S26. Every new S26 will ship with Perplexity built in as a system‑level AI, with its own wake word: “Hey Plex.”
https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2027067776217841792

Which of these companies are secretly designing their own fully humanoid robot? – Amazon – OpenAI – Skild – Physical Intelligence – Google DeepMind – Apple My guess is all of them.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2024907483601666167

Between Gemini 3.1 and Claude 4.6 it’s honestly wild what you can build. This feels like Google Earth and Palantir had a baby. Made this with all the geospatial bells and whistles — real time plane & satellite tracking, real traffic cams in Austin, and even got a traffic system
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2024672151949766950

Keeps failing over and over. Crazy how the only major lab that exclusively makes unusable models is also the one worth trillions of dollars.
https://x.com/theo/status/2025900101122867368

Gemini 3.1 Pro just broke my code then stopped because they’re over capacity. I’m paying $250/month for this btw.
https://x.com/theo/status/2025896487557947886

This explains why the only major model that still suck at tool calling is Gemini
https://x.com/theo/status/2026045501960069204

Gemini 3.1 pro scores 72.1% on WeirdML, up from 69.9% for gemini 3.0. Gemini 3.1 seems to have both the highest peak performances of any models, but also some weird weaknesses as well. It uses almost 3 times the number of output tokens as 3.0, considering this, the increase
https://x.com/htihle/status/2025867003550958018

GPT-5.2-chat-latest, the newest model powering ChatGPT, is now in the Text Arena top 5! Highlights: ▪️Top 5 scoring 1478 on par with Gemini-3-Pro ▪️+40pt improvement over the GPT-5.2 model ▪️Top in key categories: Multi-Turn, Instruction-Following, Hard Prompts, Coding A strong
https://x.com/arena/status/2025966052950315340

New templates for Veo 3.1 in the Gemini app are rolling out today. To give them a try, go to https://t.co/382WL5xSvc or open the app, select “Create videos” in the tools menu, and pick a template from the gallery. Then make it your own with a reference photo and/or description.
https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2026001595708866759

Veo 3.1 templates in @GeminiApp give you a head start on your videos. 🎬 Now, you can start with a high-quality visual foundation instead of a blank prompt. Pick an aesthetic that fits your mood, then use prompts to layer in the characters and scenery that make it yours.
https://x.com/Google/status/2026006156875804960

🚨 Nano Banana 2 is live on fal, day 0! 🎨 Excellent text rendering and realism ✨ Advanced image editing features 🎯 4x faster generation speed 💰 Lower cost with higher quality
https://x.com/fal/status/2027058299095351479

Introducing Nano Banana 2, our best image model yet 🍌🍌 It uses Gemini’s understanding of the world and is powered by real-time information and images from web search. That means it can better reflect real-world conditions in high-fidelity. Check out “”Window Seat,”” a demo
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2027057726170509724

Nano Banana 2 / Gemini-3.1 Flash pricing:
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2027048109801419015

Nano Banana templates are rolling out now in the Gemini app. 🍌 To give them a try, go to https://t.co/tYPmwdBPLt or open the app, select “Create image” in the tools menu, and pick a template from the gallery. Then make it your own with a reference photo and/or description.
https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2027081255804870985

Nano Banana 2 now available for image generation on Perplexity Computer.
https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2027149820138533241

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