Definitely, but don't sleep on its generative capacities either. You can give it a image and instruct it "Use the attached image purely as a stylistic reference" and then proceed to use it as a regular generative model.

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xnx 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Indeed. Is Nano Banana now Google flagship image gen model (over Imagen 4)?

	▲	vunderba 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In my tests it does outscore Imagen3 and Imagen4 even in the generative capacity, but my benchmark is more focused around prompt adherence. I'd wager that for certain photorealistic tests Imagen4 is probably better. https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=i3,i4,nb