Pics is an AI image generator and editor built into Google Workspace. Users can create images from text prompts and then edit individual elements within a composition by moving, resizing, translating, and transforming objects. Embedded text can be modified and translated, and specific regions of an image can be updated without regenerating the whole frame through localized object editing. The tool is powered by Nano Banana 2, which is described as supporting precise text rendering, real-world knowledge, and detailed visual output. Pics is integrated into Google Slides for in-deck generation and editing, with creations saved to Google Drive for sharing. Early access begins through Workspace Experiments, with later general availability for Business Standard and higher plans and for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
"Pics, powered by Nano Banana 2, lets users generate images from a text prompt and then move, resize, or translate individual elements without re-rolling the whole composition. Rolling out to Workspace Business Standard and higher, and to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the coming months. Google unveiled Pics at the I/O 2026 developer conference on Tuesday, a new AI image generator and editor that will sit inside Google Workspace."
"The product is positioned as the company's answer to Canva and Adobe Express on the design tools front, with precision-editing controls explicitly framed against the 'prompt-and-pray' workflow of earlier AI image generators. Pics is powered by Nano Banana 2, Google's image model that the company says is well-suited to the app because it supports precise text rendering, real-world knowledge and detailed visual output."
"The generator-and-editor combination lets users move, resize and transform individual objects inside a composition, modify and translate embedded text, and update specific regions of an image without regenerating the whole frame. That last capability, which the company calls localised object editing, is the part that Pics is being marketed on most aggressively against single-prompt rivals."
"Pics will be built directly into Google Slides for in-deck image generation and editing, and creations can be saved straight to Google Drive for sharing. The company has not yet confirmed Docs as a launch surface; the product page lists Slides and Drive specifically, with broader Workspace coverage implied but unsubscribed. On rollout, Pics is launching first into Google's Workspace Experiments programme for a small group of early-access testers; admins inside organisations using Workspace can opt their tenancy in by enabling Gemini Alpha features."
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