Google TV's Gemini is receiving a major update that enhances its AI capabilities with visual and interactive features like Nano Banana and Veo for creating AI-generated videos and images, along with improved voice control for adjusting settings through simple commands. The update aims to make the AI more helpful and engaging, initially rolling out to select TCL models before expanding to other devices.
In 2025, users widely embraced Google's Nano Banana AI image tool, with popular prompts including trying on clothes, surrounding oneself with dogs, creating images with younger selves, experimenting with new haircuts, and generating fake holiday memories, reflecting a mix of practical uses and playful experimentation.
The Gemini app now allows users to interact with Nano Banana by drawing or annotating on images, and has expanded SynthID's AI video detection to verify if videos were created or edited using Google AI, with features available across Android, iOS, and web platforms.
Google Messages is adding a new 'Remix' photo editing feature powered by Nano Banana, allowing users to modify images with prompts, available on all Android devices and initially launching in select countries for RCS users.
Google Photos is introducing new AI-powered features including conversational editing, personalized edits, and the Nano Banana model for style transformations, along with expanding the Ask Photos search to more countries and languages, enhancing user interaction and customization on iOS and Android.
Google Photos has introduced three major free AI-powered upgrades leveraging Nano Banana, including smarter, personalized photo editing, new search capabilities, and themed creation templates, enhancing user experience on Android and iOS.
Google is introducing a new 'Remix' feature in Google Messages, powered by its Nano Banana image editing model, allowing users to generate and remix images from prompts within chats, with some usage limits expected upon rollout.
Google is integrating its advanced AI model Nano Banana into various products like Search, Photos, and NotebookLM, enhancing features such as video summaries, style options, and conversational editing, with Nano Banana being a significant upgrade expected to improve user experience significantly.
Google Lens now supports Nano Banana, an image generation feature from the Gemini app, within Google Search, allowing users to create and transform images directly from their search interface, initially available in the US and India, with more regions coming soon.
Google is integrating Nano Banana's viral image editing and generation features into AI Mode and Google Lens, allowing users to create and edit images using prompts and selfies, with expanded language and regional support.
Google has made its popular Nano Banana AI image generator, part of the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, widely accessible for free, allowing users to create and edit images with new features like default aspect ratios through Gemini, AI Studio, and Adobe programs, emphasizing ease of use and privacy considerations.
Adobe has integrated Google's Nano Banana and Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 AI models into Photoshop Beta's Generative Fill tool, enhancing creative options for stylized elements and environmental accuracy, while maintaining seamless control with traditional editing tools.
Google has launched Mixboard, an AI-powered mood board app that allows users to create and edit mood boards using text prompts and AI-generated images, competing with Pinterest's collage features. The app leverages Google's Nano Banana image editing model and is currently in public beta in the U.S., targeting creative projects like home decor, events, and fashion.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed his enthusiasm for Google's AI image generator, Gemini's Nano Banana, highlighting his admiration during a London event and discussing his use of various AI tools like Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
Google's AI app Gemini has become the top free app on the Apple App Store, surpassing ChatGPT, driven by the viral Nano-Banana image-generation trend that has attracted millions of users. This highlights increasing competition in the AI app market and signals strong investor confidence in Google, whose stock is rated as a strong buy with a target price of $236.85.
