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Google Rolls Out Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Across Apps and APIs

Improved likeness preservation takes center stage, plus low per‑image cost with labeled outputs for provenance.

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AI generated image from Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.
Sundar Pichai showcased Gemini’s new AI photo editor with playful images of his dog Jeffree.
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Overview

  • Google confirmed the anonymous “nano‑banana” model as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and began rolling it out to free and paid users in the Gemini app, with CEO Sundar Pichai highlighting its top LMArena ranking.
  • The update focuses on keeping a person’s or pet’s appearance consistent across edits while enabling multi‑image fusion, multi‑turn stepwise editing, and design mixing for style transfer.
  • Access extends to developers via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI, with distribution also through OpenRouter and fal.ai; Adobe said it would add the model to Firefly and Express.
  • Pricing is set at $30 per million output tokens, or roughly $0.039 per image (about 1,290 tokens), and outputs include a visible AI mark plus an invisible SynthID watermark.
  • Hands‑on tests report fast, sharp results and strong likeness preservation, though reviewers still note occasional errors with fine details, faces or poses, and on‑image text.