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Google Makes Gemini’s Personalized Nano Banana Image Generation Free for Eligible U.S. Users

The change pairs opt‑in Personal Intelligence that uses connected Google data with new fast, low‑cost image and short‑form video models to push multimodal AI at scale.

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Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, Gemini Omni Flash AI Models To Deliver Faster Images And Smarter Video Generation (Image credit: AI-generated)

Overview

  • Google announced Monday that eligible U.S. Gemini users can now access personalized image generation powered by Nano Banana at no charge, a capability that was previously limited to paid tiers.
  • Personal Intelligence is opt‑in and draws on linked Google services such as Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search to infer user preferences and can pull photos from Google Photos when allowed.
  • Google also released Nano Banana 2 Lite for developers and consumers as a fast, low‑cost image model that produces text‑to‑image results in about four seconds and costs roughly $0.034 per 1,000 1K images.
  • Gemini Omni Flash entered public preview for short, conversational video generation and editing, currently producing up to 10‑second clips at $0.10 per second and supporting multimodal inputs and natural‑language edits.
  • Both models include SynthID watermarking for provenance, are rolling out across Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, the Gemini app and other consumer surfaces, and Google has documented current limits such as small‑face/detail errors, text mistakes, and character‑consistency issues in video.