Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the coming months.
Google unveiled Pics at the I/O 2026 developer conference on Tuesday, a new AI image generator and editor that will sit inside Google Workspace.
The product is positioned as the company’s answer to Canva and Adobe Express on the design tools front, with precision-editing controls explicitly framed against the ‘prompt-and-pray’ workflow of earlier AI image generators.
Pics is powered by Nano Banana 2, Google’s image model that the company says is well-suited to the app because it supports precise text rendering, real-world knowledge and detailed visual output. The generator-and-editor combination lets users move, resize and transform individual objects inside a composition, modify and translate embedded text, and update specific regions of an image without regenerating the whole frame.
That last capability, which the company calls localised object editing, is the part that Pics is being marketed on most aggressively against single-prompt rivals.
