Latest Hands On With Google’s Nano Banana Pro Image Generator

Corporate AI slop feels inescapable in 2025. From website banner ads to outdoor billboards, images generated by businesses using AI tools surround me. Hell, even the bar down the street posts happy hour flyers with that distinctly hazy, amber glow of some AI graphics.

On Thursday, Google launched Nano Banana Pro, the company’s latest image-generating model. Many of the updates in this release are targeted at corporate adoption, from putting Nano Banana Pro in Google Slides for business presentations to integrating the new model with Google Ads for advertisers globally.

This “Pro” release is an iteration on its Nano Banana model that dropped earlier this year. Nano Banana became a viral sensation after users started posting personalized action figures and other meme-able creations on social media.

One specific improvement is going to be catnip for corporations in this release: text rendering. From my initial tests generating outputs with text, Nano Banana Pro improves on the wonky lettering and strange misspellings common in many image models, including Google’s past releases.

Google wants the images generated by this new model—text and all—to be more polished and production-ready for business use cases. “Even if you have one letter off it's very obvious,” says Nicole Brichtova, a product lead for image and video at Google DeepMind. “It's kind of like having hands with six fingers; it's the first thing you see.” She says part of the reason Nano Banana Pro is able to generate text more cleanly is the switch to a more powerful underlying model, Gemini 3 Pro.

An example of how the tool can create a composite from multiple images.

The mock flyers and web banner ads I generated still sometimes had that yellowish tint prevalent in AI-generated graphics. Even so, Nano Banana Pro was able to put together fairly detailed marketing materials, with full sentences in multiple typefaces, from a single prompt. You can ask for tweaks to the image in a follow-up prompt, like removing a certain detail or adjusting the overall style.

Brichtova says this improved text rendering has made the creation of infographics markedly better in Nano Banana Pro. In some of my initial tests, that proved to be true. The infographic the tool generated on how to deep-fry a turkey included reasonable directions and cited warnings from the US Fire Administration, a federal agency, as well as other proper safety precautions.

“The model now uses Gemini's world knowledge and reasoning to

Source: Wired