OpenAI announced it is deprecating the Assistants API, with plans to wind it down by August 26, 2026 Its features are now folded into the Responses API, with users recommended to use it to integrate with the OpenAI API today
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Google Launches Nano-banana Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Editor
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Nano-banana, the image editing AI that ranked #1, just debuted as Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
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With multimodal reasoning and world knowledge, it supports consistent multi-turn edits and can even blend images
Available for free and paid Gemini userspic.twitter.com/kBk6iWE8yONano-banana, the image editing AI that ranked #1, just debuted as Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image With multimodal reasoning and world knowledge, it supports consistent multi-turn edits and can even blend images Available for free and paid Gemini users
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Launch and Major AI Company Updates
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AI NEWS: The mysterious 'nano-banana' model is officially here — as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Plus, more news from OpenAI, Alibaba, AI2, and Anthropic. Here's everything you need to know:
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Google Launches Gemini Image Feature with SynthID Watermark
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Both free + paid Gemini users can try it today Every image includes Google’s SynthID watermark for transparency. Want to keep up with breakthroughs like this?
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Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Nano Banana
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Google just dropped something bananas. Meet Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) State-of-the-art image generation & editing
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Google Nano-Banana Ranks High on LM Arena for Image Editing
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Sans surprise, sur LM ARENA, Nano-Banana, le dernier modèle de Google pour éditer et faire des images… est très haut.
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Google Unveils TPUv7 Ironwood: 9216 Chips Reaching Zettaflop Scale
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My Google colleagues Norm Jouppi & Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy gave a talk today at Hot Chips on TPUv7 ("Ironwood"). The TPUv7 system offers 9216 chips / pod (42.5 exaflops of fp8), but we can scale across many of these pods to provide multiple zettaflops.
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Google DeepMind Releases New Capable Image Generation Model
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@GoogleDeepMind has also released a new highly capable image generation model alongside nano-banana Try it on Replicate:
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Google Nano Banana Model Launch Announcement
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Have you tried it yet? http://
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Google’s Nano Banana Model Now Available Free Gemini App
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Best part: Free in Gemini App & the Google AI Studio @googleaidevs API: just $0.039 per image Not hype. The “Nano Banana” model is now my go-to.
