Google announced that Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is expanding its reach to more apps and services across the search giant"s ecosystem. It"s rolling out to Google Search and NotebookLM, and will be available for Google Photos in the coming weeks.
In Google Search, Nano Banana is part of the AI Mode and Google Lens for people living in the US and India. You can open Lens in the Google app on Android and iOS, go to the Create mode, and type your prompt. You can also take a picture and describe the edits you want to make.
In NotebookLM, the Video Overviews feature is getting a major upgrade in the form of Nano Banana, adding more context and visual appeal to the AI-generated video summaries. It also brings six new styles, including Papercraft, Watercolor, Anime, Whiteboard, Retro Print, and Heritage.
Just like it did for Audio Overviews, Google has added new formats for Video Overviews. You can create "Explainer" videos that are "structured, comprehensive video based on your sources for in-depth understanding." The other one is "Brief," to generate small videos to quickly understand the core ideas of a document.
The AI-powered image editing model introduced in August this year has been on the Gemini app until now. Nano Banana has been used to generate over five billion images to date, according to the company.
Nano Banana is developed by the Alphabet-owned AI research lab, Google DeepMind. It builds on the Gemini app"s image editing features and makes AI-generated images of people and animals look more consistent.
The model can be used to change a person"s outfit or how they might look after a few years, blend photos together, and apply the style of one image to an object in another. Google hosted a Nano Banana hackathon last month and rewarded 50 winners with prizes worth $400,000.