Nano Banana

“I think we've always been amazed that nobody ever posts anything about, so interleaved generation is what we call the model's ability to generate more than one image for a specific prompt. So you can ask for like, I want a story, like a bedtime story or someth…”

“What we saw was that we budgeted like, you know, a comparable amount of queries per second as we had for our previous models that were on Ella Marina. And we had to keep upping that number as people were going to Ella Marina to use the model.”

“For this first release, the model's not as good as text rendering at, as we would like it to be, and that's something that we want to fix in the future”

“Fun is kind of a gateway to utility where, you know, people come to make a figurine image of themselves, but then they stay because it helps them with their math homework, or it helps them write something, right?”

“I've seen examples where people give it, like an image of HTML code and have the model render the webpage.”

“Once you get into real long conversations, like it starts to follow your instructions a little bit worse”

“We've been trying to get the model to create like, childlike crayon drawings, which is actually quite challenging. Ironically, you know, sometimes the things that are hard to make are, because the level of abstraction is very large. So it's actually quite diff…”

“With the launch of new viral models like Nano Banana, Gemini is now growing desktop users a 155% year over year, which is actually accelerating even as they reach more scale, which is pretty crazy to see.”

“Nano banana and Nano banana pro in image models, which went insanely viral, probably comparable to, if not beyond the Ghibli moment for open AI.”

“Well, for sure, you know, Grok and ChatGPT I use every day. And then you know, probably I've been playing with, like Veo and Nano Banana a lot on a daily basis of the big guys.”