Google just released Nano Banana 2 Lite, a faster, cheaper image generation model.
Creates images in ~4 seconds at $0.034 per image. Rolling out across Search, Gemini app, Photos, NotebookLM, and more.
Also expanding access to Gemini Omni Flash, their multimodal video editing model, turn text/images/video into short video clips (up to 10 sec) using natural language prompts.
$0.10 per second of video.
๐ Bonus: you can chain them, generate an image with Nano Banana, then animate it with Omni Flash.
Both come with SynthID watermarking for transparency on AI-generated content.
Big week for AI updates ๐