GOOGLE has launched its next-gen Nano Banana Pro AI bot that makes any image you can dream up – and it’s free.
And a Google insider has shared its brainy new tricks with The Sun, and even teased what’s next for the clever AI.
Earlier this year, Google’s Gemini AI chatbot added a new feature called Nano Banana.
It allowed users to create stunningly lifelike images, as well as craft pics using consistent characters – including your own face, or a pal’s.
Now Google is using its upgraded Gemini 3 Pro tech to offer a new image-maker called Nano Banana Pro and it has some big advantages, including properly displaying text.
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“It’s much better at rendering text than any of our models have been before,” said Google’s Nicole Brichtova, speaking to The Sun.
Getting written text right has been a major bug-bear for AI bots.
A telltale sign of AI images has been scrambled words that don’t make sense or use letters that don’t exist.
But not only can Nano Banana Pro do text right, it can also help you out on holiday.
“It can also do that in more than 10 languages,” Nicole, the product lead for Image & Video at Google DeepMind, explained.
“So if you have a poster that’s in English, and you now want to localise it into Spanish, the model will keep the visual the same.
“And the font and the style and everything, but it will actually just translate the text into Spanish.”
The original Nano Banana became a hit, allowing users to restore old photos or turn themselves into action figures.
But it still struggled with text, which meant that it couldn’t create detailed text-heavy images.
Now Google says that the new model is good enough that you could create entire infographics – a major help for youngsters at school or uni.
“You can be like: ‘give me an infographic about how the pyramids were built that’s suitable for a 10-year-old’,” Nicole told us.
“And the model will adapt the content to that audience.”
It’s not just education either: sports fans can take advantage of it.
That’s because Google’s Nano Banana Pro can tap into up-to-date information via Google.
“The model can also tap into search’s knowledge database,” Nicole said.
“So if you want fresh, like ‘give me an infographic about the latest sports game for my favourite team’, you can now get that individual format.”
Nicole continued: “You can make your own comic book as well.
“You provide an image of yourself and then specify what you want to be.
“I just did a superhero one for myself because why not? And then you can get a full comic book that you can skip through.”
But it’s not just text that Google’s new AI image maker is better at.
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Google says that the new Pro version is much better at keeping faces consistent across images – and with more people too.
“So Nano Banana took three images as input that you can compose into a new piece of content,” Nicole told The Sun.
“This model takes 14 – and the 14 is up to five actual characters or people.
“So you can keep five people consistent, and then you have other references, like their headphones, or a table, or plants or the background.
“And then you compose all of those elements into a new scene.”
On top of that, you can also be more specific about how you want your image files to be.
That means you can choose resolutions or the shape of images to fit your needs.
“We’re also now offering 2K and 4K resolution, up from one,” Nicole told us.
“So just sharper detail, which has been one of the top-requested features that we’ve had from Nano Banana.
“And we also offer a wide range of aspect ratios.”
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Google told us that there’s no word limit for the amount of text you can demand from a Nano Banana Pro image.
But Nicole warned that if you serve up page-length text, the small size of the font might start to create issues.
“And it’s really very, very small text where we still have some headroom to push on improving the model,” she added.
That’s not the only upgrade that Google is hoping to deliver in the future either.
Millions of office workers across the land spend hours crafting slide decks on apps like Google Sheets, Microsoft Powerpoint or Apple’s Keynote.
But Nicole said that Nano Banana Pro is getting very close to being able to take a lot of that work on itself.
However, despite its powerful AI brain, there’s still one issue that hasn’t been resolved yet.
“People have made full slide decks with this model internally,” Nicole said.
“If you look at it with a very critical design eye, you might still want a little more continuity.
“But single slides, it can absolutely do. With some work, you can absolutely make an entire slide deck.
“And then I think the next phase, which is not on this model, would also be able to edit the content.
“Because if you make a slide deck, you want to be able to edit the text, right?
“The output that you get from the model is pixels. And so you will get an image that you’re not able to edit. And so I think next up is being able to do that.”
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/tech/15522269/google-nano-banana-pro-gemini-3-image-maker-app/
