#ai-image-generation

#ai-image-generation

Powered by Gemini 3, it's effectively an upgrade of the company's popular image generation and editing tool that went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into hyperrealistic 3D figurines. Google says it lets you create higher quality images that you can print, render legible text onto pictures, and blend multiple images together into a single composition. It's also meant for "people who want to feel like professionals," Naina Raisinghani, a product manager at Google DeepMind, told The Verge.

Nano Banana Pro is an updated version of the Nano Banana image generator, originally launched in August and already one of the fastest image-creation tools available. Built on Gemini 3 Pro, the new version promises better reasoning, more consistent image results and clearer text generation inside AI-created images. Google said the upgrade addresses a long-standing challenge in AI imaging: generating legible text. With Gemini 3's enhanced reasoning engine, Nano Banana Pro produces more accurate typography and better contextual understanding inside visual outputs.

I couldn't draw much else with the mouse, nothing more complicated than a lopsided house and a tree, so I would ask him, knowing full well he wasn't the artist in the family, to draw something for me; that day I asked for a dog. He tried his best, but what came up on the canvas was a misshapen thing - a kind of pig-dog hybrid that was so bad it had us laughing for a good while.

We didn't go down that route, because even slightly rephrasing the request allowed us to directly get a pic of the iconic Charles Schultz character. "Generate a cartoon image of Snoopy in his original style," we asked - and with zero hesitation, ChatGPT produced the spitting image of the "Peanuts" dog, looking like he was lifted straight from a page of the comic-strip.

The new Androidify app lets you make your own bot avatar, but it does so based on your own photo or text prompt, meaning it has an incredibly deep level of customization. Google says the app uses a combination of tools to create your bot -- Gemini 2.5 Flash to caption the photo, Imagen to generate your custom Android bot, and Veo 3 to animate your bot with different vibes.

To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach,

Every image generator is unique, but I've spent enough time with them to recognize some patterns. There are certain things AIs are prone to mess up -- fingers on hands, overlapping elements, extremely fine details, etcetera.