#nano-banana

#nano-banana

2025 was the year when a swarm of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company launched with an aim to replace Chrome with features like sidebar assistants and automated tasks. Now, Google is flexing its own AI muscles by adding similar features to Chrome, the world's largest browser by market share. While Google had introduced Gemini to Chrome last September, the assistant lived in a floating window.

The AI-powered image editor makes it easy to change images with natural language user prompts. Also: You can test Microsoft's new in-house AI image generator model now - here's how The model became generally available earlier this month, but was only accessible in the Gemini API or for enterprise use via Vertex AI. Here's how to get started in these recently added applications.

"Now, we're bringing Nano Banana to Google Search and NotebookLM (and soon to Photos), helping more people access these advanced capabilities in products where they're already exploring, learning and creating with visuals."