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Google connected Thursday rolled retired Nano Banana Pro, its latest representation editing and procreation tool, continuing the company's momentum aft launching its caller Gemini artificial intelligence exemplary earlier this week.
The merchandise is built connected Gemini 3 Pro, which was announced connected Tuesday and contributed to record-breaking banal highs.
Alphabet's banal was up 4% Thursday.
Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, told CNCB's Deirdre Bosa that the Nano Banana Pro's capabilities grow beyond its archetypal iteration, which launched successful precocious August.
"It's unthinkable astatine infographics. It tin marque descent decks. It tin instrumentality up to 14 antithetic images, oregon 5 antithetic characters, and benignant of support that quality consistency," helium said.
He added that interior users person experimented with the diagnostic by inputting codification snippets and adjacent LinkedIn resumes to make infographics.
"I deliberation this quality to visualize things that were antecedently possibly not thing you would deliberation of arsenic a ocular mean that tends to beryllium 1 of the magic things radical are uncovering with it," Woodward said.
The archetypal Nano Banana went viral connected societal media arsenic users turned photos of themselves oregon their pets into hyperrealistic 3D figurines. Woodward wrote successful an X post successful September that the merchandise helped adhd 13 cardinal caller users to the Gemini app successful the span of 4 days.
Nano Banana Pro is presently disposable successful the Gemini app, with constricted escaped quotas, Google's penning assistant, NotebookLM, arsenic good arsenic the company's developer, endeavor and advertizing products.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers volition person entree to the merchandise successful Google's hunt features AI Mode.
The diagnostic volition aboriginal besides rotation retired to Ultra subscribers archetypal successful Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool.
Google introduced different diagnostic successful the Gemini app that allows users to upload immoderate representation to find retired if it was generated by Google AI.
Images generated connected escaped Nano Banana accounts volition person a watermark, but it volition beryllium removed for Google AI Ultra tier subscribers.
Google has been moving to summation crushed connected OpenAI successful the generative AI race, which ignited aft the merchandise of ChatGPT successful 2022.
Last week, OpenAI announced 2 updates to its GPT-5 exemplary to marque it "warmer by default and much conversational" arsenic good arsenic " more businesslike and easier to recognize successful mundane use," the institution said.
ChatGPT presently tops the database of escaped apps connected Apple's App Store, with Gemini successful the 2nd spot.
The Gemini app presently has implicit 650 cardinal monthly progressive users per month, and Gemini-powered AI Overviews has 2 cardinal monthly users, Google said successful a release. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said successful October that ChatGPT had reached 800 cardinal play progressive users.
Woodward said Google AI products person had increasing demand, with galore users signing up for Gemini's subscription program to person "higher limits with immoderate of these precocious models."
"We're seeing precocious numbers of radical coming to tons of these products," helium said. "That's truly the champion occupation to have, is there's a batch of demand, and we're trying to fig retired really however to service it."
The institution is looking to proceed scaling its AI offerings, Woodward said, highlighting Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool, and Genie, a "world building" exemplary that is presently disposable arsenic a constricted probe preview.











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