Nano Banana image examples

Posted by SweetSoftPillow 9/11/2025

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n8cpdx 9/11/2025|

Has AI generation of chest hair finally been solved? I think this is the first time I’ve seen a remotely realistic looking result.

HeartStrings 9/12/2025||

Nano banana is actually a world model. It generates an entire world, then shows you the frame you need.

jaequery 9/12/2025||

wow. RIP midjourney.

moralestapia 9/11/2025||

Wow, just amazing.

Is this model open? Open weights at least? Can you use it commercially?

SweetSoftPillow 9/11/2025||

This is a Google's Gemini flash 2.5 model with native image output capability. It's fast, relatively cheap and SOTA-quality, and available via API. I think getting this kind of quality in open source models will need some time, probably first from Chinese models and then from BlackForestLabs or Google's open source (Gemma) team.

vunderba 9/11/2025|||

Outside of Google Deepmind open sourcing the code and weights of AlphaFold, I don't think they've released any of their GenAI stuff (Imagen, Gemini, Flash 2.5, etc).

The best multimodal models that you can run locally right now are probably Qwen-Edit 20b, and Kontext.Dev.

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image-edit

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-1-kontext-dev

SweetSoftPillow 9/11/2025||

Google also open sources Gemma LLMs and embedding models, which are quite good at the time of release (SOTA or near-SOTA in the open source field).

vunderba 9/11/2025||

Oh very nice I wasn't aware of that [1] [2]. Adding the links as well.

[1] https://deepmind.google/models/gemma

[2] https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b [2]

minimaxir 9/11/2025||

Flux Kontext has similar quality, is open weight, and the outputs can be used commercially, however prompt adherence is good-but-not-as-good.

mmmnnn 9/12/2025||

best post ever for me. thanks for sharing.

AstroBen 9/11/2025||

The #1 most frustrating part of image models to me has always been their inability to keep the relevant details. Ask to change a hairstyle and you'd get a subtly different person

..guess that's solved now.. overnight. Mindblowing

osn9363739 9/12/2025||

Not that these examples aren't really good. But you only have to spend a small amount of time to find a lot of mistakes.

Inityx 9/12/2025||

"Solved" is a strong word...

animanoir 9/12/2025||

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foofoo12 9/11/2025||

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vunderba 9/11/2025|

It is HIGHLY unlikely that site is using actual Gemini Flash 2.5 - ICANN shows the domain was registered on Aug 14th 2025, practically a week before Google even announced the availability of Nano Banana.

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-...

zhaozhao1124 9/18/2025||

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frfl 9/11/2025|

While these are incredibly good, it's sad to think about the unfathomable amount of abuse, spam, disinformation, manipulation and who know what other negatives these advancement are gonna cause. It was one thing when you could spot an AI image, but now and moving forward it's be basically increasingly futile to even try.

Almost all "human" interaction online will be subject to doubt soon enough.

Hard to be cheerful when technology will be a net negative overall even if it benefits some.

signatoremo 9/11/2025|

By your logic email is clearly a net negative, given how much junk it generates - spam, phishing, hate mails, etc. Most of my emails at this point are spams.

frfl 9/11/2025||

If we're talking objectively, yeah by definition if it's a net negative, it's a net negative. But we can both agree in absolute terms the negatives of email are manageable.

Hopefully you understand the sentiment of my original message, without getting into the semantics. AI advancement, like email when it arrived, are gonna turbocharge the negatives. Difference is in the magnitude of the problem. We're dealing with whole different scale we have never seen before.

Re: Most of my emails at this point are spams. - 99% of my emails are not spam. Yet AI spam is everywhere else I look online.

DrewADesign 9/11/2025|||

Their argument is false equivalence. You can’t just say “if you’re saying X is negative, you must believe that Y is negative because some of the negatives could be conceptually similar.” A good faith cost benefit analysis would rank both the cost and risks of an extremely accurate, cheap, on-demand commercial image generation service and an entirely open asynchronous worldwide text communication protocol, in different universes.

wiredpancake 9/11/2025|||

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