I am confused, how can functions that output images help with functions that should take images as input?

They’re multimodal LLMs trained for image generation. Turns out that if you want to generate images you gotta know what things look like.

That's not helpful my brother. If you have details share them, if not, don't pretend you are more illuminated than me.

Is the image(text) function reversible? Or are they brute force searching a nearest neighbor like word2vec/hash brute forcing.

	▲	sorenjan 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Google recently released their paper "Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners" about exactly this. They fine tuned Nano Banana pro into what they call Vision Banana which can do segmentation etc. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20329