Google has announced the launch of Nano Banana Pro, a state-of-the-art image generation and editing model built on its Gemini 3 Pro platform. The new tool introduces a suite of advanced features designed to provide users with studio-quality creative control and enhanced visual accuracy.
Advanced Creative Capabilities
Nano Banana Pro significantly upgrades Google’s AI image generation offerings. It leverages Gemini 3 Pro’s advanced reasoning and real-world knowledge to produce more contextually rich visuals. Key enhancements include superior text rendering directly within images, support for multiple languages, and the ability to generate complex infographics and diagrams using real-time data from Google Search.
The model is also designed to handle intricate compositions, allowing users to blend up to 14 different images while maintaining visual and character consistency across multiple elements, making it a powerful tool for storyboarding, prototyping, and creating complex scenes.
Studio-Grade Control for Professionals
A major focus of Nano Banana Pro is providing users with granular control over their creations. The new model introduces advanced editing functions that allow for the selection and refinement of specific parts of an image.
Users can adjust camera angles, shift focus, and apply sophisticated color grading. The tool also enables dramatic transformations of scene lighting, such as changing a daytime scene to night or creating a bokeh effect. All creations are available in 2K and 4K resolutions, making them suitable for a range of platforms from social media to professional print.
Phased Rollout Across Google’s Ecosystem
Nano Banana Pro is being rolled out globally across various Google products. Consumers and students can access it through the Gemini app, with subscribers to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra receiving higher usage quotas.
For professional users, the model is being integrated into Google Ads to enhance creative asset generation. It is also being added to Workspace tools like Slides and Vids. Developers can access Nano Banana Pro through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio to build custom applications.
Watermarking and AI-Generated Content Verification
To promote transparency, all images created with Google’s AI tools are embedded with SynthID, an imperceptible digital watermark. A new verification feature allows users to upload an image to the Gemini app and ask if it was generated by Google AI.
Additionally, a visible watermark will be present on images created by free-tier and Google AI Pro users. Recognizing the need for a clean canvas in professional work, this visible watermark will be removed for Google AI Ultra subscribers and users of the Google AI Studio developer tool.
Relevance for MENA’s Tech Scene
The launch of Nano Banana Pro offers significant opportunities for the MENA region’s burgeoning tech and creative sectors. Its enhanced multilingual capabilities, particularly for rendering text accurately in different languages like Arabic, can empower startups and marketers to create localized, high-quality visual content more efficiently.
For the region’s content creators and advertising agencies, the ability to produce studio-grade infographics, marketing materials, and product mockups without extensive design resources can level the playing field. Furthermore, MENA’s developer community can leverage the Gemini API to integrate these advanced image generation features into new applications, fostering innovation in areas from e-commerce to ed-tech.
About Google
Google is a global technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
Source: Tech in Asia
