Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google DeepMind · · 27 days after Gemma 4 12B
Partially verified
0 of 1 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 2 archived1 not researched yet
Why this status
Cited to official documentation. Not verified because the release date could not be found in any cited primary source — the value may be correct, but this dataset cannot yet show where it came from.
What these states mean · How records are judged · Has this record changed?
The low-latency image generation and editing tier, served as gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image.
Details
| Released | June 30, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Company | Google DeepMind |
| Family | Nano Banana |
| Era | Agentic systems |
| Type | Image generation |
| Modalities | Text + Image → Image + Text |
| Capabilities | Reasoning, Function calling, Image generation |
| Weights | Proprietary |
| Licence | Not applicable — proprietary |
Current information, elsewhere
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Sources
Record status: partly verified · confidence 60/100 · 2 of 2 primary
Cited to official documentation. Not verified because the release date could not be found in any cited primary source — the value may be correct, but this dataset cannot yet show where it came from.
- ai.google.dev Official documentation archived
- ai.google.dev Official documentation archived
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
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
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