Every month, artificial intelligence continues to transform the way we create, work, and consume content. A few years ago, we talked about virtual assistants or text generators as something new. Today, the spotlight is undoubtedly on visual tools that can transform photos or create them from scratch.
In this context, Google has gone one step further with its new AI, Nano Banana (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). It is a tool that uses multimodal AI to quickly edit and generate images with professional quality and without technical complications.
In this article, we’ll tell you what it is, how to use it, and why it’s causing such a stir in the industry.
What is Google’s Nano Banana?
Nano Banana is the code name for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the latest version of Google’s generation and editing model. It is integrated into:
- The Gemini app for general users.
- Google AI Studio, for creating custom applications.
- Gemini API, for developers.
- Vertex AI, Google’s enterprise cloud solution.
The tech giant unveiled it in late August 2025, and its purpose is to edit and transform images in a matter of seconds. It allows you to remove objects, change backgrounds, merge photos, or alter their style, while maintaining realism and visual consistency.
Key features of Nano Banana
From vision to sound: understanding the real world
Nano Banana was not created simply to apply filters, but is designed to interpret text and images with contextual understanding. Thanks to its multimodal training, it responds to prompts such as “remove this background” or “put me in another environment” by understanding styles, emotions, and visual consistency.
In addition, it benefits from the real-world knowledge that Gemini already has, giving it semantic control over more complex scenes, diagrams, or educational uses.
Real-time and offline processing
One of the great advantages of Nano Banana is its speed. It can generate or edit images in one to two seconds (other models take ten to fifteen seconds) and supports multi-turn editing. This means you can make consecutive changes to the same image and the AI will maintain consistency.
As mentioned above, it is available via API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI, making it easy to integrate into creative or business projects.
Where will we see Nano Banana in action?
- Gemini App: ideal for creative and casual users. More than 200 million edits have already been recorded, and it has attracted more than 10 million new users for this recent feature.
- Google AI Studio: it allows you to create custom applications, such as visual editors, with ready-to-use templates and prompts.
- Gemini API / Vertex AI: perfect for developers and companies that want to integrate it into their workflows.
- X (Twitter): Nano Banana can now also be used on this social network by mentioning the official account followed by the prompt for the image you want to create.
Nano Banana vs. Other AI Models
As we have seen, this new AI from Google shows great promise and is hitting the market with a bang, but what really sets it apart from other AI models? Let’s take a look.
- Consistency and realism: it stands out for maintaining the visual identity of the subject (whether a person, pet, or object) even after several edits. This is a benefit that other models such as ChatGPT have not yet fully achieved.
- Speed: it is up to six times faster than ChatGPT at generating images.
- Freemium and price: currently, up to 100 images can be generated for free with Nano Banana. The professional version costs approximately €12 per month.
- Technical quality: it is very accurate in terms of faces and visual consistency. This makes it ideal for portraits, advertising, and design. While ChatGPT stands out more for its artistic creativity, it is less realistic.
- Advanced features: it can merge multiple images, allows scientific editing, and also includes visible and invisible watermarks to verify authenticity.
Practical applications of Nano Banana
The arrival of this tool not only excites designers and creatives, but also opens doors in multiple sectors:
- Advertising and marketing: it allows visual campaigns tailored to different audiences to be generated in seconds, optimizing time and costs.
- Education: it facilitates the creation of illustrated teaching materials, from diagrams to historical or scientific representations.
- E-commerce: online stores can edit catalogs, change product backgrounds, or try out visual variations without the need for professional photo studios.
- Digital art: artists can use it as a support for sketches, quick compositions, or as a tool for experimentation.
- Media: newsrooms can generate explanatory images, infographics, or illustrations to accompany complex news stories.
Google’s visual revolution is here
In short, Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash) represents a significant leap forward in AI-powered visual generation and editing. Its combination of realism, speed, contextual editing, and character consistency makes it one of the most robust offerings available today.
It is not simply a creative toy for amateurs: it is a scalable solution that can be used in advertising, branding, digital art, education, or science. Compared to other models that focus on artistic creativity, Nano Banana stands out for its precision, control, and efficiency.
With millions of users trying it out in just a few weeks and its integration into the Google ecosystem, everything points to Nano Banana marking a turning point in how we conceive of digital visual creation.
Google’s visual revolution is no longer in the future: it is already here and available to everyone.