MODEL SIGNAL · GOOGLE · NEW
Gemini Nano Banana 2.1
Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's high-efficiency image-generation and conversational-editing model, updated from Nano Banana 2 with improvements in visual quality, prompt adherence, multi-turn character consistency, text rendering, and wide and panoramic aspect-ratio generation.
CATEGORYMultimodal
CONTEXT131,072 tokens
RELEASEDOctober 6, 2026
Key Features
- 131,072-token input limit
- Accepts text, image, video, and PDF inputs
- Generates image and text outputs
- Improved visual quality and realism at 1K, 2K, and 4K resolutions
- Supports multi-image fusion with up to 14 reference images
- Supports Google Web and Image Search grounding
- Supports configurable thinking levels
- Optimized for conversational image generation and editing
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