🍌 Nano Banana Pro Image Model Launches

Google just unveiled Nano Banana Pro, its newest image model, and it’s a big step in accuracy and creative control. The model checks lighting, angles, and depth before it starts generating, helping it produce more realistic scenes, sharper text, and smoother multi-step edits. Let’s dive in!

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Evolving AI: Google's new image model steps up accuracy and control.

Google introduced Nano Banana Pro, also called Gemini 3 Pro Image, built for realistic scenes, accurate text, and multi-step editing. It uses a reasoning pass to assess lighting, angles, and depth before creating an image. It works with sketches, logos, and reference shots, supports 4K output, and can handle multiple characters. The model can use live information and produce infographics, weather maps, and layout drafts.

You can try Nano Banana Pro in Gemini →

Nano Banana Pro turns image generation into something creative teams and developers can actually plan around: marketers can spin up on-brand ads, localized posters, or live-data infographics straight inside Workspace and Google Ads, grounded on current info from Search instead of guesswork. Developers get a controllable visual engine inside Antigravity and Vertex AI for UI mockups, product renders, or dashboards that update with real numbers. With higher-res output, stronger text rendering, character consistency, and built-in watermarking, teams can move faster and bring image generation closer to a dependable design resource rather than a lucky hit machine.

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Evolving AI: Meta pushes visual AI forward with two new SAM models.

Meta launches SAM 3 and SAM 3D, moving from point and click segmentation to text prompts and one photo reconstruction. SAM 3 understands detailed object requests in video editing, while SAM 3D already runs features like View in Room on Facebook Marketplace. Both come with open models, checkpoints, and datasets through the new playground.

SAM 3 and SAM 3D turn fussy visual work into something much closer to writing a prompt than wrestling with keyframes or pricey 3D shoots. Editors can pick out exactly who or what they want in a scene with a short description, ecommerce teams can flip flat product photos into “view in room” style previews, and engineers get a fast lane for labeling data and fine tuning through Meta’s open releases and Roboflow tooling. The bigger shift is that vision models are finally catching up with language models, and whoever stitches them together best could end up owning a big slice of creative and shopping workflows.

Evolving AI: Target expands its work with OpenAI to bring conversational shopping inside ChatGPT.

Target is deepening its use of OpenAI models across store operations, support tools, supply chain forecasting, and guest interactions. The new Target app in ChatGPT lets shoppers plan occasions, build baskets, browse fresh items, and check out with pickup, shipping, or Drive Up. Internally, Target’s tools help teams answer questions, resolve issues, match prices, and manage returns faster, all trained on extensive knowledge bases.

Target showing up as an app inside ChatGPT is a preview of shopping that starts with a chat instead of a search bar, part of a broader swing toward “agentic commerce” where assistants can suggest, build baskets, and check out in one flow. As OpenAI turns ChatGPT into an app platform and signs big deals with companies, retail stops being a separate tab and becomes something you do while planning life admin in one place. For shoppers that means fewer screens to juggle during peak moments like holiday runs, for Target’s teams it means fewer repetitive questions and faster fixes, and for every other retailer it quietly raises the bar on what “modern” shopping is expected to feel like.

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