Official and provider materials explained
This update and region-specific editing →
Vercel describes two uses: placing an existing product in a different setting, and specifying an editing region with a mask or drawn strokes.
Google DeepMind · Released 2026-10-06
Nano Banana 2.1
An image-generation and conversational-editing model; follow official examples, local edits, subject consistency and tool access.
Original model explanation ↗No comparable leaderboard score is included yet. Explore the evaluations and examples below.
Evaluations: conditions and results
Official model information
Google DeepMind model card ↗
How this capability connects to works and uses
Official examples, not a matched-prompt test
Architecture and macro detail: official generated examples →
Google AI Studio released four generated images with Nano Banana 2.1: a mountain hut, a person with an animal, macro detail and architecture.
Google DeepMind model evolution
- Gemini 3.7 Flash → 3.8 Flash
Flash advances coding, multi-step reasoning and agent work at the same speed and price positioning; Flash Cyber is a separate security-focused variant.
Original release ↗ - Gemini 4 Argon
The new generation is announced with access initially limited to invited testers; evaluation results do not establish public availability.
Original release ↗ - Nano Banana 2.1
Image generation and conversational editing advance, emphasizing local edits, subject consistency and text rendering.
Original release ↗ - EmbeddingGemma 2
The retrieval model extends text representations to images, audio and video, with public weights and phone demos.
Original release ↗