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Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by hbardigital »

The speed is definitely impressive. I'm seeing under 5 seconds per image vs ~30 seconds for base NB2.

I built an app for my kids that generates illustrated stories for them with them as the characters. I wanted to prioritize likeness while still stylizing the illustrations. I tested a bunch of models but none seem to come close to maintaining likeness when stylized. I find the others generate generic looking characters.

I'm excited to incorporate this into the onboarding of my app since I want the users to experience the aha moment as soon as possible and waiting half a minute+ isn't ideal. I'll still be using the main NB2 for the actual illustrations as this lite version still has slight issues with nuance and consistency as others have pointed out.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by uejfiweun »

cush wrote: post #8

I'm way behind in imagegen - only using it occasionally for roleplaying tokens, goofing around, and random personal assets. To me, this is nuts. It's able to create images in like 2 seconds... before with chatgpt it would take 30s-1m for the same quality image. I don't get the negative comments here

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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by echelon »

minimaxir wrote: post #5

I received early access to test this model. (through work — Google still does not like me personally lol) It works as advertised here, and it does behave like a distilled Nano Banana 2 with respect to certain elements such as good text rendering, which Nano Banana 1 does much worse with. It is definitely not at the level of the base Nano Banana 2 of course particularly with highly-nuanced prompts. My main criticism i…

> Google still does not like me personally lol

Please elaborate.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by echelon »

cush wrote: post #8

I'm way behind in imagegen - only using it occasionally for roleplaying tokens, goofing around, and random personal assets. To me, this is nuts. It's able to create images in like 2 seconds... before with chatgpt it would take 30s-1m for the same quality image. I don't get the negative comments here

Different use cases.

People making images, where the image is the focal point, want to spend more per image.

Where images are parts of reports or throwaways or demos, cheap is the better approach.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by rafaelero »

Expensive and Google doesn't even have enough resources to decently deploy a model like that. Creating 10 images in parallel gives me RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED error, which is a painfully common error when using Google AI products.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by ms7m »

torginus wrote: post #17

The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of these Ikea-chic images of what the apartment presumably could look like, before you are allowed to see the horrors they are trying to peddle at insane prices.

And it's borderline fraud, I think I saw an apartment on Streeteasy where they were able to 'fit' an entire desk, drawers and a queen size bed, obviously these image models just scale these down to proportions that just don't exist in real life.

the actual bedroom could only fit queen size bed ;(

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by etdznots »

psygn89 wrote: post #19
torginus wrote: post #17

The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of these Ikea-chic images of what the apartment presumably could look like, before you are allowed to see the horrors they are trying to peddle at insane prices.

I think that should be illegal and misrepresenting. Lots of gray area with AI usage.

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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by ignoramous »

rafaelero wrote: post #26

Expensive and Google doesn't even have enough resources to decently deploy a model like that. Creating 10 images in parallel gives me RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED error, which is a painfully common error when using Google AI products.

> Google doesn't even have enough resources to decently deploy a model like that

Probably not for free but tbf, Google did scale "AI Mode" globally to its billion+ users, with its Gemini 3 series. Pretty much broke my habit of searching the web with pplx & Chat.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by bakugo »

torginus wrote: post #17

The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of these Ikea-chic images of what the apartment presumably could look like, before you are allowed to see the horrors they are trying to peddle at insane prices.

In a sane world, this would be a clear cut case of false advertisement, and the real estate agents would be held liable for fraud. Sadly, we don't live in a sane world.
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