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It's not in the Gemini app or site at all. You have to use AI Studio or another means. Yes, this is all very confusing on Google's part.
by jeffbee 1y ago
It's not in the Gemini app or site at all. You have to use AI Studio or another means. Yes, this is all very confusing on Google's part.
- IanCal 1y agoHmm could the old models generate images before? Had they hooked up imagen or something? I can make images on the Gemini site.
- bonoboTP 1y agoYes, there was gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation before, which could generate and edit also. But weaker than the new one.
- IanCal 1y agoThanks, I'd not realised that, which means I have no idea if the things I've done outside of the API are this new one or not. That does feel classic google.
- bonoboTP 1y agoYes, there's a conflict between wanting to just provide the good stuff by default under a unified Gemini brand where you don't have to worry about model names, it just works, versus building hype for a specific model and then being unclear about whether you're using that one or not. The nano-banana name is unique and fun, and got some recognition on social media already, they should just make a page with that heading and a chatbox. But again, that would focus on the new image editor thing only, and they probably want to lure people into their whole ecosystem, to switch to Gemini in general, from competitors like ChatGPT.