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on Thursday rolled out Nano Banana 2, an update to its wildly popular artificial intelligence image generator.
The company launched the first Nano Banana in August, and the service quickly went viral. Nano Banana Pro hit the market in November, built on Gemini 3 Pro.
Google said in a blog post that Nano Banana 2 has advanced world knowledge, pulling real-time information from Gemini for more accurate renderings. The company also highlighted the new model’s increased speed, enhanced instruction following and more precise text renderings for “marketing mockups or greeting cards.”
The company said Nano Banana Pro will remain available for “high-fidelity tasks requiring maximum factual accuracy,” while Nano Banana 2 will be focused on “rapid generation, precise instruction following and integrated image-search grounding.”
