Overview

• The tool is officially Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, though Google surfaces the Nano Banana name in the Gemini app and AI Studio.
• VP Josh Woodward reported over 200 million images edited since last Tuesday and said more than 10 million users are new to the Gemini app, noting “TPUs red hot” and “SRE pagers howling.”
• The model prioritizes likeness preservation with multi‑turn edits, multi‑photo fusion, and style transfer, typically returning results in roughly 12–25 seconds.
• Nano Banana is available in the Gemini app for consumers and to developers via Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI.
• On LMArena’s Image Edit leaderboard, the model ranks first by a wide margin, while outputs carry visible markers and an invisible SynthID watermark for provenance.