Google upgrades Gemini picture enhancing with ‘nano banana’ mannequin

Gemini is best at enhancing your photos with a brand new mannequin replace from Google DeepMind.

The mannequin, which rose to the highest of the LMArena leaderboard underneath the alias “nano banana,” is definitely referred to as Gemini 2.5 Flash Picture. The Google DeepMind group says this mannequin has been skilled to make topics extra constant throughout varied edits of AI-generated photos. This has been a problem for AI picture fashions, given their unpredictable nature.

The power to add and natively edit images in Gemini has been round since April of this 12 months. As an alternative of studying the technical ins and outs of picture enhancing software program like Photoshop, customers can add a picture to Gemini and describe the adjustments they need in easy phrases, no jargon required. With Gemini’s up to date mannequin, Google says you are able to do issues like change a topic’s outfit and placement, whereas conserving their likeness the identical.

It’s also possible to add a number of images and have the topics seem collectively in the identical picture, or add and alter particular particulars in an uploaded picture to, say, see what a room appears to be like like with a unique coloration of paint or totally different furnishings.

Here is Gemini’s try at enhancing my canine into the downward canine pose and relocating her to a yoga studio. Her likeness is similar, and it efficiently edited the picture to make her eyes open, however her physique is not arched in the way in which it needs to be. (I’d know, I’ve seen this playful pose from her many instances.)

Here is my canine Lola, not doing yoga
Credit score: Mashable

Here is the Gemini-edited model after I prompted it to open her eyes, put her within the downward canine pose, and alter the background to a yoga studio. It is shut, however not fairly proper.
Credit score: Mashable

As Google DeepMind mentioned in its announcement, the mannequin won’t all the time get it proper. There may nonetheless be inaccuracies with superb particulars, textual content within the picture, and inconsistencies. With my experiment, my canine’s fur appears to be like overly clean, however her general coloring, dimension, and form keep the identical. All photos have a visual watermark and an invisible watermark referred to as SynthID to mitigate any confusion over whether or not they’re actual or AI-generated. This replace is now reside, so you may attempt it out for your self within the Gemini app.