Nano Banana 2.1
Google DeepMind · · 6 days after Gemini 4 Argon
Verified
1 of 1 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 1 archived1 not researched yet
Why this status
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Google's high-efficiency image generation and conversational editing model, released generally available as gemini-nano-banana-2.1. Google describes it as an update to Nano Banana 2 (gemini-3.1-flash-image).
Details
| Released | October 6, 2026stated in ai.google.devNano Banana 2.1 was released on October 6, 2026.
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| Company | Google DeepMind |
| Family | Nano Banana |
| Lineage | after Nano Banana 2 |
| Era | Agentic systems |
| Type | Image generation |
| Modalities | Text + Image + Video → Image + Text |
| Capabilities | Reasoning, Image generation |
| Weights | Proprietary |
| Licence | Not applicable — proprietary |
Current information, elsewhere
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Sources
Record status: verified · confidence 90/100 · 2 of 2 primary
Newly added. Sources are not archived and no value has been traced to one yet — run `npm run enrich`.
- ai.google.dev Official documentation archived
- ai.google.dev Official documentation
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Nano Banana family
- Nano Banana 2 February 26, 2026
- Nano Banana Pro May 28, 2026
- Nano Banana 2 Lite June 30, 2026
- Nano Banana 2.1 October 6, 2026
What changed from Nano Banana 2
Compared with the previous release in this series. A field appears only when both records state a value — where one does not, it is listed as uncomparable rather than dropped, because a gap in our research is not a finding about the model.
- Modalities first evidencedimage in, video in, image out
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