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Google Launches Pics, an AI Design App Built Into Workspace

It lets teams generate and edit production-ready images using object-level prompts powered by Gemini and the Nano Banana model.

Overview

  • Google announced Pics on Tuesday as a new Workspace app and as integrations for Docs and Slides that let users open an image and edit specific objects or text with descriptive prompts.
  • Pics combines image generation from scratch with fine-grained, object-level editing, text reformatting and translation, upscaling to 2K or 4K, and format-aware quick crops for web and print.
  • Google said Drive integration will arrive in the coming weeks while Pics is already available to customers on specified Workspace and Google AI plan tiers.
  • The launch targets business use cases like marketing, product storytelling, and localized assets by reducing repeated prompt work and keeping basic design inside Workspace rather than in third-party tools.
  • Pics builds on Google’s Gemini and Nano Banana models and follows testing after Google I/O, positioning the company to compete with specialist platforms such as Canva and Adobe Express while remaining focused on enterprise workflows.