Overview

• Google confirmed it is starting to roll out Nano Banana in Search via Google Lens and AI Mode, enabling instant photo transformations with its latest image model.
• In AI Mode, a new plus icon opens Gallery, Camera, and a banana‑tagged Create Images option that changes the prompt to “Describe your image” and can generate images from scratch.
• In Google Lens, a Create tab with a banana emoji on the shutter defaults to the front camera for selfies, offers a lens switcher, and drops captures into AI Mode for follow‑up edits.
• Outputs can be downloaded and shared and include a Gemini spark watermark in the bottom‑right corner for provenance.
• Google says the model has edited more than 500 million images since launch, and it is also available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and a Perplexity WhatsApp bot.