Overview
- The model is now production-ready across the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and for enterprises on Vertex AI, with new docs and a cookbook for developers.
- New features include GIF creation, multi‑image blending, an image‑only output option, and support for 10 aspect ratios spanning landscape, square, portrait, and flexible formats.
- Google emphasizes identity consistency and pixel‑level targeted edits from a native multimodal system that understands text and images in context for iterative workflows.
- Adoption has surged since late August, with Google citing more than 5 billion creations and reporting viral trends, with India highlighted as a leading user base.
- Ecosystem notes include Adobe access, a WhatsApp route via the Perplexity bot, SynthID invisible watermarking for provenance, and reports of unaffiliated 'Nano Banana' apps causing confusion.