Overview

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted three banana emojis on X, prompting speculation that he was hinting at the newly flagged Nano Banana tool.
• Around the same time, Google DeepMind touted “a bananas upgrade” to Gemini and linked to a blog titled “Nano Banana! Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade.”
• A Google DeepMind product lead said the update pushes visual quality forward with stronger instruction-following for more seamless edits.
• Early reports describe rapid, text-guided edits that often complete in one to two seconds with no masks plus strong character and style consistency.
• Access remains constrained, with appearances in LMArena blind tests, nanobanana.ai, and fronts like Flux AI, Bylo.ai, and Dzine, while broader rollout has not been confirmed.