Tag: NotebookLM

Google Announces Nano Banana Pro for every builder and business

Today Google has announced Nano Banana Pro, their latest and most powerful image generation and editing model yet, built on Gemini 3 Pro. 

They are bringing Nano Banana Pro to many of the Google surfaces where the original model is already available:

  • Consumers and students: Available now in the Gemini app under the ‘Thinking’ toggle alongside Nano Banana (with limited free quotas before reverting to Nano Banana), in Search’s AI Mode for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. and in NotebookLM.

  • Professionals: Available to Workspace customers in the Gemini app and in Google Slides.

  • Advertisers: Google is upgrading image generation in Google Ads to Nano Banana Pro to put cutting-edge creative and editing power directly into the hands of advertisers globally.

  • Developers and enterprise: Accessible via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, and in Google Antigravity; enterprises can use it in Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI for scaled creation.

  • Creatives: In Flow, the AI filmmaking tool, Nano Banana Pro gives creatives, filmmakers and marketers even more precision and control over their frames and scenes, coming first to Ultra subscribers. 

In addition, Google is expanding their commitment to transparency by launching a new feature in the Gemini app. Users will be able to upload any image and instantly ask if it was generated by Google AI, thanks to their embedded SynthID watermarking technology. As a result, they are removing the visible watermark from images generated by Google AI Ultra tier users in the Gemini app.

See more below

 

Earlier this year we launched Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). It became the top rated image model in the world, and we were excited to see the overwhelming response from our customers. For enterprises, Nano Banana made it dramatically easier – and more fun – to edit images with natural language and make visuals with consistent characters. 

Today, we’re announcing Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), our state-of-the art image generation and editing model, in Gemini Enterprise, Google Workspace, and Vertex AI. Nano Banana Pro excels in visual design, world knowledge, and text generation, making it easier for enterprises to: 

  1. Deploy localized global campaigns faster. The model supports text rendering in multiple languages. You can even take an image and translate the text inside it, so your creative work is ready for other countries immediately. 
  2. Create more accurate, context-rich visual assets. Because Nano Banana Pro connects to Google Search, it understands the real world context. This means you can generate maps, diagrams, and infographics that get the facts and details right — perfect for training manuals or technical guides where accuracy matters. 
  3. Maintain stronger creative control and brand fidelity. The model allows you to upload up to 14 reference images, which means you can load a full style guide simultaneously—including logos, color palettes, character turnarounds, and product shots. This ensures the model has the complete context needed to match your brand identity. Need to refine the result? Just describe the change using natural language to add, remove, or replace details. Nano Banana Pro supports up to 4K images for a higher level of detail and sharpness across multiple aspect ratios. 

Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana are designed to power a complete creative workflow. Start with Nano Banana for high-velocity ideation, then transition to Nano Banana Pro when you need the highest fidelity for production-ready assets.

Supporting your commercial needs: Both models fall under our shared responsibility framework, and you can ensure transparency and responsible use with built-in SynthID watermarking on every generated asset. We’re committed to supporting your commercial needs with copyright indemnification coming at general availability. 

What Nano Banana Pro can do for businesses 

Nano Banana Pro builds on the incredible speed of the original model, but adds the precision needed for businesses. Marketing teams can use it to generate assets that are immediately campaign-ready and on-brand to quickly iterate on ideas, saving hours of manual review, reducing production cost, and allowing your team to focus on strategy and final creative oversight. Designers can now accelerate concepts and prototyping by rendering a 3D image from a simple sketch or diagram. 

Advanced translation and localization: Marketers, you know how important – and difficult – it can be to translate your campaign into another language. Scaling a global campaign traditionally requires massive budgets and coordination with external agencies. Now, you can easily translate and regenerate assets—allowing you to expand your global footprint without expanding your bottom line. 

Search Grounding: Nano Banana Pro can use Google Search to research topics based on your query, and reason on how to present factual and grounded information. 

Advanced composition: Add up to 14 input reference images to combine elements, blend scenes, and transfer designs to create something entirely new. Nano Banana Pro maintains the quality of a developed asset but delivers it in minutes. 

Advanced text rendering: Generate clear, accurate text within images, unlocking use cases for product mockups, posters, and educational diagrams. This could include natural text placement (e.g., wrapping text around an object) and support for various fonts and styles. 

How customers are already using Nano Banana Pro 

Nano Banana Pro is becoming an essential infrastructure layer for the creative economy, powering the design platforms that creatives rely on. By integrating our models directly into their workflows, we are helping industry leaders like Adobe, Figma, and Canva deliver next-generation AI capabilities. Here’s what they have to say about building on our foundation:

 

 

While platforms build the tools, the world’s leading agencies and brands are delivering results. We’re moving from experimentation to enterprise-grade production, where efficiency and performance shine.

Get started 

We’re making Nano Banana Pro available where your teams already work, keeping you in the driver’s seat: 

  • For developers: You can start building with Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini API today in Vertex AI. For those building with Vertex AI, Nano Banana Pro is an enterprise-grade offering that includes Provisioned Throughput, Pay As You Go, and advanced safety filters. 
  • For business teams: Nano Banana is available in Gemini Enterprise with Nano Banana Pro coming soon. Gemini Enterprise is our advanced agentic platform that brings the best of Google AI to every employee, for every workflow. And, starting today, Nano Banana Pro is rolling out to Google Workspace customers in Google Slides, Vids, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM — learn more. 

Google’s new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging discussions with one click

Google’s new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging discussions with one click, read more below on the latest news

Over the summer, NotebookLM expanded globally and used Gemini 1.5’s multimodal capabilities to power new features, such as Google Slides and web URL support, better ways to fact-check, and the ability to instantly create study guides, briefing docs, and more.

Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go.

It’s important to remember that these generated discussions are not a comprehensive or objective view of a topic, but simply a reflection of the sources that you’ve given it.

To try it out, follow these steps:

  1. Open an existing notebook

  2. Open your Notebook guide

  3. Click on the “Generate” button to create an Audio Overview

Audio Overview is still experimental and has some known limitations. For example, for large notebooks, it can take several minutes to generate an Audio Overview. Also, when the AI hosts are explaining your sources today, they only speak English, sometimes introduce inaccuracies, and you can’t interrupt them yet.

We’re excited to bring audio into NotebookLM since we know some people learn and remember better by listening to conversations. Be sure to share your feedback so we can make Audio Overviews an even better way for understanding the information that matters most to you.

Read more here.

NotebookLM comes to Ireland with support for websites, Slides and more

Last summer, Google introduced NotebookLM, an AI-powered research and writing assistant. Today, the business is bringing an upgraded version of NotebookLM — now using Gemini 1.5 Pro — to Ireland, along with over 200 countries and territories around the world.

Google’s goal from the beginning with NotebookLM has been to create a tool to help you understand and explore complex material, make new connections from information, and get to your first draft faster. You can upload sources — your research notes, interview transcripts, corporate documents — and instantly NotebookLM becomes an expert in the material that matters most to you. Today’s upgrade introduces several new features:

 

  • NotebookLM now supports Google Slides and web URLs as sources, along with Google Docs, PDFs and text files.

  • Inline citations now take you directly to supporting passages in your sources, so you can easily fact-check the AI response or dive deeper in the original text.

  • Notebook Guide gives you a high-level understanding of your sources by converting them into useful formats like FAQs, Briefing Docs, or Study Guides.

Thanks to Gemini 1.5 Pro’s native multimodal capabilities, you can now ask questions about images, charts and diagrams in your Slides or Docs. NotebookLM will even include citations to images as supporting evidence when relevant.

Case studies from real users

The range of uses that people are finding for NotebookLM has been incredible. Because NotebookLM was developed in close partnership with authors, students, and educators, many early adopters have integrated the product into research and writing workflows. Best-selling author Walter Isaacson has been working with NotebookLM to analyze Marie Curie’s journals for research on his next book. There has been similar enthusiasm from documentary and podcast researchers who need to sift through complex archives to generate scripts or story ideas. But the combination of Gemini 1.5 Pro’s advanced reasoning abilities and NotebookLM’s source-grounding architecture has unlocked many other potential applications:

 

  • In local governance, Thomas Gaume created a hyperlocal newsletter, aggregating city ordinances, land use data, zoning codes, and council meeting minutes. NotebookLM empowered him to be a “one-person newsroom and publisher”.

  • NotebookLM’s ability to summarize and adapt interview transcripts is helping users identify patterns and themes in raw transcripts, saving hours of manual analysis. For example, consultant Victor Adefuye uses NotebookLM to analyze sales call transcripts for targeted training and coaching.

  • Nonprofits have deployed NotebookLM to help them identify needs in underserved communities and organize information for grant proposals.

Some less than expected and playful use cases have also been noticed with the help of the 14,000 member Discord community, including:

  • Role-playing game enthusiasts use NotebookLM to manage detailed descriptions of fantasy worlds in games like Dungeons and Dragons.

Getting started

If you’re new to NotebookLM, getting started is easy: When you first access NotebookLM, you’ll create a notebook and upload documents for a specific project or deliverable. At that point you can read, take notes, ask questions, organize your ideas, or ask NotebookLM to create automatic overviews of all your sources—a study guide, for example, or a table of contents.

Whether it’s being used to build imaginary worlds, write bestselling biographies, or help salespeople find new customers, NotebookLM has given U.S. users powerful tools for making connections and generating insights out of large collections of documents.