Google Ships Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash: 4-Second Images, Video Generation
Summary: Google shipped two generative media models on June 30 — Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast, cheap image generation and Gemini Omni Flash for video creation and conversational editing.
Key Points
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image): text-to-image in under 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1,000 images at 1K resolution; available immediately via Google AI Studio, Gemini API, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
- Gemini Omni Flash (public preview): generates and conversationally edits video from text or image input; $0.10 per second of video output
- Rolling out to consumer surfaces including AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app
- Gemini 3 Pro Image remains available for higher-fidelity work with multi-turn editing and up to 14 reference inputs
Why It Matters
At $0.034 per 1K images, Nano Banana 2 Lite directly challenges OpenAI's gpt-image-1 on price and speed for enterprise batch workloads. Paired with Gemini Omni Flash's video output, developers can build a complete text→image→video pipeline within a single Google API — a meaningful step toward unified multimodal generation.
Read More
- Official Google Blog — Google
- Google introduces Nano Banana 2 Lite — TechCrunch
How this story unfolded
- Gemini 3.5 Pro Confirmed for July GA: 2M Token Context, Deep Think Reasoning
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think Sets New Records on Science and Reasoning Benchmarks, Surpassing Fable 5 and GPT-5.5
- Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.1 Climbs to No. 2 in AI Video Rankings as Sora and Seedance Exit
- Apple Launches Five Third-Gen Foundation Models, Co-Built With Google and NVIDIA