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title: "Google upgrades its popular image tool Nano Banana, launching the Gemini App and search on Thursday"
description: "Updating"
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locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/277073743.md"
published_at: "2026-02-26T16:44:21.000Z"
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# Google upgrades its popular image tool Nano Banana, launching the Gemini App and search on Thursday

> Updating

Six months after the release of the first-generation Nano Banana, Google upgraded this popular AI image generation tool, which will generate higher quality images faster. On the day of the release, the Gemini app and the AI mode of Google Search went live

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