The Nano Banana 2 AI image generator that went viral recently is now official: Meet Google’s Nano Banana Pro, built on Gemini 3 Pro technology.
This year, Google’s AI image generation team managed to pull off a trick unseen from rivals. The Nano Banana image generation model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) went viral not once, but twice, during pre-release testing online. It happened in August with Nano Banana, which was just a placeholder until Google embraced it as an official product name. Then, Nano Banana 2 (Nano Banana Pro) went viral a few weeks ago, stunning testers with new image generation improvements beyond what Google had achieved months earlier. Rumors that followed said Google would unveil Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana 2 at the same time, but that wasn’t exactly the case. Gemini 3 Pro dropped on Tuesday, and Google waited until Thursday to release Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), its newest state-of-the-art model.
Interestingly, Google unveiled a new Generative UI experience for Gemini 3, where the AI creates immersive visuals for prompts that demand a visual experience. Google said Generative UI uses an image generator to create the visual experiences, without disclosing its identity. The arrival of Nano Banana Pro makes even more sense in that context. Nano Banana Pro is built on Gemini Pro tech, using its „state-of-the-art reasoning and real-world knowledge to visualize information better than ever before.
