AI image maker Nano Banana comes to AI Mode and Lens
Google’s popular AI image generator Nano Banana is being expanded. It will soon come to AI Mode and Lens, which you can use now within Gemini. Nano Banana to AI Mode۔
We’ve previously given examples of the fun things you can do with Nano Banana. Since Google has recently been increasingly imbuing its software with AI, it is not a strange choice that Nano Banana is included. However, it is still relatively defined, so you know you are using artificial intelligence. At least, especially regarding usage, it is easy to bypass image information and watermarks within the AI image generator.
Nano Banana will now also integrate the underlying model of Nano Banana into its AI mode and Lens. It concerns the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, which can be found by pressing the plus sign in AI mode. You can find it within Lens at the right side of your screen. So it is not very prominent and immediately arrives with all kinds of bells and whistles: it is added, and you can start using it yourself.
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You can then grab an image from the gallery, take a quick photo with your camera, or instantly create a completely new image, made entirely of AI. If you choose the last option, you can ask anything you want, but even if you upload a picture, you can ask all kinds of questions to have the subject of the photo cut out and placed in a completely different environment. Once it’s ready, you can download and share the image, with a Gemini watermark appearing at the bottom right to prove it’s an AI-generated image.
We don’t yet know exactly what the added value of Nano Banana is in Lens: it seems that Google not only wants you to ask for information, but also that you can ask to generate images. Striking, because Lens is mainly about the real world, while Nano Banana is very much about the fantasy world. However, you can very quickly have a photo you just take edited with AI by adding it to Lens, so it may be mainly a speed issue.
Right now, it appears to only be live in the United States at first, so it remains to be seen when it will reach the rest of the world.