Google’s nano banana just killed Photoshop... let’s run it

Fireship demos Google Gemini 2.5 Flash image (Nano Banana), arguing it threatens Adobe with $0.039/image API pricing and strong character consistency.

• Gemini 2.5 Flash image costs $0.039 per image via API and tops the LM Arena image leaderboard.
• Character consistency lets the model blend up to 13 images while preserving subject identity across outputs.
• Google trained a more powerful “Grande Banana” variant but has not released public access.
• The model embeds invisible SynthID watermarks in all generated images — deception on Steam is not viable.
• Real-world geo-awareness: point at a Google Maps location and it generates a realistic street-level photo.
• Known weaknesses: adds spurious characters to text in images, frequently ignores or partially follows prompts.
• Character consistency still produces uncanny-valley artifacts on real human faces despite the marketing claims.
• Heavy content moderation blocks any non-SFW generation, consistent with Google’s platform defaults.

2025-08-29 · Watch on YouTube