Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from ChatGPT. The update, called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, rolls out starting Tuesday to all users in the Gemini app, as well as to developers via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI platforms. Gemini’s new AI image model is designed to make more precise edits to images — based on natural language requests from users — while preserving the consistency of faces, animals, and other details, something that most rival tools struggle with. For instance, ask ChatGPT or xAI’s Grok to change the color of someone’s shirt in a photo, and the result might include a distorted face or an altered background.

Full report : Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model and launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in the Gemini app, API, and more.