Google: "Meet Nano Banana 2.1, our latest image generation and editing model"

Posted 16:00 UTC on 6 Oct with a short animation. Google says Nano Banana 2.1 "outperforms our previous models across the board", with "notable leaps in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency". The post gives no price or model id; for those see the Gemini API pages and Philipp Schmid's post (2026-10-06-philschmid-nano-banana-2-1-pricing). Reach at 11:31 UTC on 7 Oct: ~901k views, 5,015 likes, 581 reposts, 362 quotes.

Meet Nano Banana 2.1, our latest image generation and editing model 🍌

This upgraded version outperforms our previous models across the board, with notable leaps in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency to help you create more natural-looking images.

Media: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/HT9YdA0XQAEToa1.mp4

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