The mysterious ‘nano-banana’ image model giving gpt-image-1 a run for its money

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There’s an image model codenamed ‘nano-banana’ currently in testing, widely rumoured to be Google’s next-gen model. I tested it by uploading the first image (from Midjourney) with the prompt “A photobooth photograph in four quadrants of this woman's face in different poses and with different expressions [listed]”. The second image is nano-banana, the third is gpt-image-1 (with that giveaway yellow tint!). They’re different, but equally good. If it *is* Google’s new model, hopefully we get an announcement this week…