Gemini's "Banana Vision" feature has been upgraded: the images are so realistic they're controversial.

One of the most noteworthy features is Nano Banana, a humorous name given by the community to the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image photo editing model. Despite its cheerful and whimsical appearance, Nano Banana represents a significant turning point that helped Gemini surpass many competitors, including ChatGPT, in the photo editing and creation field.

From restoring old photos and merging objects to creating mini-characters and retouching faces, Nano Banana has become a trusted tool for both casual users and creative professionals. A series of videos circulating on social media showed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image handling complex photo editing tasks in just seconds. Clips of users transforming a cat into a 3D cartoon character, changing photo backgrounds, or recreating group photos with incredible accuracy have made Nano Banana a phenomenon.

And today, Google officially takes this phenomenon to a whole new level with the introduction of Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image. This isn't just a simple technical update. This is Google's way of declaring that they are setting a new standard for the AI ​​imaging industry.

Nano Banana Pro is built on the Gemini 3 Pro platform. This means the new image creation model is not only powerful in image processing but also possesses deep reasoning capabilities, contextual understanding, and rich real-world knowledge. For users, this means that each image created is no longer just "beautiful" but also "accurate"—correct in content, logic, context, and usage needs.

1. The images are created more accurately.

When it comes to AI-powered image creation, the two most important factors are aesthetics and accuracy. While AI models have been able to produce visually stunning images for years, accuracy in context, knowledge, and logic remains a significant challenge. This is where the Gemini 3 Pro, and especially the Nano Banana Pro, shines.

From the very first tests, users realized that the new model not only "draws according to descriptions" but also "understands descriptions." This is no coincidence. Gemini 3 Pro is designed to possess contextual inference capabilities equivalent to or superior to many modern language models. When this skill is transferred to image creation, Nano Banana Pro can analyze image creation requirements more deeply, thereby producing significantly more accurate images.

A prime example is the creation of educational illustrations. If the requirement is to create an infographic explaining the photosynthesis cycle, Nano Banana Pro not only produces a beautiful image but also ensures that components such as sunlight, chloroplasts, CO2, O2, etc., appear in the correct positions. This provides teachers, students, and content creators with a powerful visual tool, saving time compared to having to manually draw it using traditional graphic design software.

Another unique feature that few competing models can offer is the ability to connect directly with Google Search. This is equivalent to AI being able to access a massive real-time data repository to create images based on real-time events. When users want to see an illustration of today's weather, the latest sporting events, or a trending recipe, Nano Banana Pro can generate relevant images almost instantly.

1.1. The ability to create text in images

One of the classic weaknesses of most AI image modeling systems is text. The systems often misspell words, distort text, blur fonts, or produce illegible text. This poses a significant challenge for designers, especially those with high expectations for professionalism, such as when creating posters, banners, brochures, or product mockups.

Nano Banana Pro has done something that surprised the creative community: it creates text in images with near-perfect accuracy. The model can render taglines, slogans, titles, bottle labels, signs, or even long paragraphs without the common distortion errors seen before. The text is displayed clearly, with the correct font, texture, slant, and thickness to match the required content.

This is a capability that very few AI models have been able to do well until now, including many upgrades of Midjourney or DALL·E.

Furthermore, Nano Banana Pro possesses excellent linguistic nuance understanding. This allows the model to create fonts that suit the emotions, culture, and language. When requested to create a Japanese travel poster in a classical calligraphy style, the model can choose a font that reflects strong East Asian characteristics. When requested to create an EDM poster, the model will select a modern, sharp, and dynamic font.

Multilingual capabilities are also a major advantage of Gemini. With advanced reasoning abilities, Nano Banana Pro can process text in many different languages, from Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean to complex writing systems like Arabic. Creating product launch posters for multiple markets is now a simple "enter description and receive image" operation.

1.2. The Power of Professional Design

What makes Nano Banana Pro highly regarded in the design world is its ability to combine multiple images into a single layout. The model can work with up to fourteen images simultaneously while maintaining consistency in lighting, tone, viewing angle, and style. For brand designers or UX/UI professionals, this is incredibly helpful when needing to combine multiple product or character images into a single layout.

Nano Banana Pro goes beyond 2D graphics; it can even transform designs into realistic 3D structures. When a designer submits a packaging sketch, the modeler can instantly create a complete product image with appropriate materials, lighting, and reflectivity. This shortens the process from idea to actual product, saving costs on studio rentals or manual mockup creation.

The ability to maintain the same look for up to five people in an image is another notable upgrade. This feature is especially useful when users want to create a series of portraits, family photos, or game character images with a consistent style.

1.3. Improving local editing 

The Nano Banana Pro's development lies not only in creating new images but also in its ability to edit existing ones. The model offers sophisticated controls that allow users to modify even the smallest details of an image without affecting the overall composition. From rotating the direction of light, blurring the background, changing the focus, to switching between daytime and nighttime lighting, everything can be done using natural language descriptions.

The ability to create bokeh effects, adjust color grading, or shift camera angles are features previously only available in professional graphic design software like Lightroom or Photoshop. Now, these can be done directly within the AI ​​image generator, significantly saving content creators post-processing time.

In particular, Nano Banana Pro supports a wide range of aspect ratios, from square format for Instagram to 16:9 for video, 4:5 for Facebook, or print poster aspect ratios. 2K and 4K resolutions make the final product suitable for use in large commercial projects.

2. How will Nano Banana Pro be implemented?

A powerful technology only truly delivers value when it's delivered to users on a large scale. Google has planned to roll out Nano Banana Pro across a range of products and services, ensuring that all user groups can harness this new power.

General users and students will have access to Nano Banana Pro directly within the Gemini app when selecting the Thinking model-based image creation mode. The system will provide a limited free allowance, allowing everyone to experience the new technology without paying immediately. Once the allowance is exceeded, users will revert to the original Nano Banana version, which is still powerful enough for basic needs.

Those who own a Google AI Plus, Pro, or Ultra subscription will enjoy higher usage levels, suitable for frequent creative professionals or those who need to create large quantities of digital images.

Google Ads will also be upgraded to integrate Nano Banana Pro, providing the ability to create professional ad images without hiring designers or using external stock images. Campaign images, banners, or product mockups can be created or edited in seconds.

Users of workspaces like Google Slides and Vids will gain the added power of AI visualization right in their work environment, making creating presentations or videos simpler and more visually appealing.

For developers, Google deploys Nano Banana Pro as an API via Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Antigravity, supporting the creation of detailed UX/UI mockups and layouts. This opens up the possibility of integrating the technology into internal systems, web apps, or specialized design tools.

Professional creators, especially filmmakers and animators, will access Nano Banana Pro through Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool. Its ability to precisely control framing and create consistent scenes shortens video production time while opening up a wider creative space.

Focus on determining the transparency of AI imagery.

In a landscape where AI images are increasingly indistinguishable from real images, Google considers information transparency a crucial task. Therefore, all images created with Nano Banana Pro are embedded with the SynthID digital watermark. Even if users edit, crop, or compress the image, the watermark remains.

Google also introduced a tool that allows users to upload images to the Gemini app and ask if they are products of Google AI. This is an important step in combating the spread of misinformation or deepfakes.

For free and Pro users, the generated images will have a visible watermark (Gemini star icon) for easy identification. However, to meet the needs of professional designers, Google will remove the visible watermark for Ultra users and those using Nano Banana Pro in development environments such as Google AI Studio.