Today's AI Daily Brief covers the groundbreaking release of Google's Nano Banana image generation model, which has taken the AI community by storm over the past few weeks. Google officially revealed that Nano Banana is actually Gemini 2.5 Flash, now available as a free preview in Google AI Studio, offering unprecedented image editing capabilities with perfect object consistency and incredible prompt adherence. The model dominates benchmarks, scoring 17% higher than competitors like Flux, and opens up seven transformative use cases from professional photo editing to 3D mesh generation. This represents a major leap forward in multimodal AI that could reshape entire industries from photography to game development.
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