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date: "2025-08-26"
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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
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# Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ('Nano Banana')

Google launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, nicknamed 'Nano Banana', an image generation and editing model notable for character consistency and conversational multi-turn editing, which drove a surge of Gemini app adoption.

## Key facts
- Released 26 August 2025
- Topped LMArena image-editing leaderboard under the codename 'nano-banana' before launch
- Strong character/subject consistency across edits
- Outputs carry SynthID invisible watermark

## What happened

Google shipped an image model that made precise, prompt-based photo editing a viral consumer phenomenon.

## Why it matters

Showed natively multimodal LLMs overtaking specialized diffusion tools for image editing.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): in its training data
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Google Developers Blog)](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/) (developers.googleblog.com, official)
2. [Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade (Google)](https://blog.google/products/gemini/updated-image-editing-model/) (blog.google, official)
3. [Wikipedia: Nano Banana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_Banana) (en.wikipedia.org, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

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- 2025-05-20: [Google's Veo 3 generates video with native audio](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-20-veo-3/index.md)