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IanCal 7 days ago

Hmm could the old models generate images before? Had they hooked up imagen or something? I can make images on the Gemini site.

bonoboTP 6 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, there was gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation before, which could generate and edit also. But weaker than the new one.

IanCal 6 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks, I'd not realised that, which means I have no idea if the things I've done outside of the API are this new one or not. That does feel classic google.

bonoboTP 6 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, there's a conflict between wanting to just provide the good stuff by default under a unified Gemini brand where you don't have to worry about model names, it just works, versus building hype for a specific model and then being unclear about whether you're using that one or not. The nano-banana name is unique and fun, and got some recognition on social media already, they should just make a page with that heading and a chatbox. But again, that would focus on the new image editor thing only, and they probably want to lure people into their whole ecosystem, to switch to Gemini in general, from competitors like ChatGPT.