# Nano Banana: what I've logged

> Nano Banana comes up in 4 posts of my AI log, from November 2025 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Google DeepMind and Google, filed under frontier, open weights and image, video, world.

## Items

1. **Nano Banana 2.1** (Google DeepMind, 5 Oct 2026): Google's image generation and conversational editing model is generally available, with up to 14 reference images and search grounding. [Primary source](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-nano-banana-2.1) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-05-week-in-ai#item-4)
2. **Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite** (Google DeepMind, 29 Jun 2026): June 30 brought a video generation and editing model at $0.10 per second and a fast image model at $0.034 per 1K image, both with SynthID. [Primary source](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni-flash-nano-banana-2-lite/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-06-29-week-in-ai#item-3)
3. **Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)** (Google, 23 Feb 2026): Pro-level image quality at Flash speed, with better text rendering and consistency across characters and objects. [Primary source](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai#item-1)
4. **Nano Banana Pro** (Google DeepMind, 17 Nov 2025): Image generation and editing on Gemini 3, with sharp text rendering and more control over composition. [Primary source](https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-17-week-in-ai#item-5)

## Posts

- 2026-10-05 [Mistral Large 4, Claude Haiku 5.5 and a wave of decision models](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-05-week-in-ai)
- 2026-06-29 [Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 and $10, Fable 5 returns, Nano Banana 2 Lite](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-06-29-week-in-ai)
- 2026-02-23 [Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLM](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai)
- 2025-11-17 [Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-17-week-in-ai)

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