It was only back in August that Google launched its upgraded image generator Nano Banana, but already the company is releasing a big update. Nano Banana will soon be rolling out to a wide variety of Google tools, bringing image generation to everything from search to research.
To be more specific, Google will soon be rolling the tool out to Google Search and NotebookLM, as well as Google Photos, down the line. This will allow users to explore and create via AI image editing and generation in these apps.
On search, you’ll be able to take a photo with Google Lens and transform the taken image there and then. In the Google Lens app, there will be a new Create mode to do this with.
As for NotebookLM, Google is working to bring a video overview feature. NotebookLM already offers audio and written overviews, so this seems like the obvious next step. While pricing has yet to be announced, this could be behind a more expensive paywall due to the high costs of video generation.
This will include six new styles to use in Notebook overviews, such as generating watercolour or anime illustrations based on the sources that you input.
While Google has announced that Nano Banana will also come to Google Photos, it is not immediately clear when this will happen or in what way the tool will be improved.
Why is this important?
In the race for AI supremacy, Google has a major advantage over the competition. This is due to two factors. Firstly, along with the likes of OpenAI and xAI, it is producing some of the best AI models and tools out there.
Nano Banana is one of the leading image generators, and the Gemini technology frequently tops leaderboards for AI power. However, that alone isn’t enough to be ahead; Google gets the added bonus of having a whole library of technology that people actively use.
An array of popular Google smartphones, Google search, photos, Google Lens and NotebookLM. These are all products with large groups of active users.
Google has used this combination to actively create AI tools that are integrated naturally into its users’ lives. This latest push of Nano Banana helps to move this further forward.
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