- Google launched a platform that creates video games from text prompts.
- Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an upgraded image generation and editing model rolling out in the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, Google Ads and developer tools; developer pricing starts at $0.0336 per standard 1K image, about half the prior model's $0.067.
- Google DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2 for private on-device search across text, images, video and audio.
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“Meet Nano Banana 2.1, our latest image generation and editing model”
“Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2.1, the newest version of the AI model that turns a typed sentence into a picture, or edits a photo you already have.”
“Google launches platform to create video games from text prompts”
“Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2 for private on-device search across text, images, video & audio.”