Google DeepMindImage modelSuperseded

Nano Banana

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image: the viral editing model of 2025.

Image Generation

of 20
8.3 pts behind #1

races led

weeks at #1

83.0

score

The 30-second version

The original viral Gemini image editor that made conversational photo editing a mainstream habit.

Key takeaways

Current snapshot · illustrative scores · click any race to watch it

Nano BananaBest on each axis

Image Generation

#1 frontierNano BananaQwen Image 2.1FLUX.3 Klein

The distilled version first; open any release for the deeper breakdown.

The Nano Banana family

60-second briefing

Nano Banana, explained

AI video summary · placeholder render from the auto-written script

From Google's own guide, distilled

Structure prompts as persona, task, context and format; the format line is the most often forgotten.
Few-shot examples set the pattern; keep their formatting identical so the model copies structure, not noise.
Gemini reads images, video and PDFs natively, so attach the source instead of describing it.
Place media before the text instruction that refers to it.
Break complex jobs into a chain of smaller prompts and pass outputs forward.

About Google DeepMind

Google's AI lab behind Gemini, Veo, Imagen and Nano Banana.

Optimising for

Native multimodality (image, video, audio), very long context, science, and tight integration with Search, Workspace and Android.

London, UK / Mountain View, US · founded 2010

Closest rivals

Nano Banana is 9th in image generation; leader is GPT Image 2.