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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by JLO64 »

simonw wrote: post #193

This thing's ability to produce entire infographics from a short prompt is really impressive, especially since it can run extra Google searches first. I tried this prompt: Infographic explaining how the Datasette open source project works Here's the result: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/#creat...

This is legitimately game changing a feature in my SaaS where customers can generate event flyers. Up until now I had Nano Banana generate just a decorative border and had the actual text be rendered via Pillow controlled by an LLM. The result worked, but didn’t look good.

That said, I wonder if text is only good in small chunks (less than a sentence) or if it can properly render full sentences.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by phatfish »

logankilpatrick wrote: post #419
ceroxylon wrote: post #306

Google has been stomping around like Godzilla this week, and this is the first time I decided to link my card to their AI studio. I had seen people saying that they gave up and went to another platform because it was "impossible to pay". I thought this was strange, but after trying to get a working API key for the past half hour, I see what they mean. Everything is set up, I see a message that says "You're using Paid…

First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…

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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by jckahn »

bitpush wrote: post #397
indigodaddy wrote: post #389

I don't understand the excitement around generating and/or watching AI-produced videos. To me it's probably the single most uninteresting and boring thing related to AI that I can think of. What is the appeal?

Do you feel the same way about VFX (marvel etc) or animated movies (pixar etc)

I do. I miss practical effects; they were much more entertaining.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by sefrost »

vunderba wrote: post #444
sosodev wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Nano Banana Pro should have passed your giraffe test. It's not a great result but it is exactly what you asked for. It's no worse than Seedream's result imo.

Yeah I think that's a fair critique. It kind of looks like a bad cut-and-replace job (if you zoom in you can even see part of the neck is missing). I might give it some more attempts to see if it can do a better job. I agree that Seedream could definitely be called out as a fail since it might just be a trick of perspective.

Have you ever considered a “partial pass”?

Perhaps it would be an easy cop out of making a decision if you had to choose something outside of pass/fail.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by roflyear »

brandon272 wrote: post #424
logankilpatrick wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…

Just a note that your HN bio says "Developer Relations @OpenAI"

Pretty funny! I wonder how much of a premium Google is paying.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by vunderba »

SamBam wrote: post #468
vunderba wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's just the API you're interested in, Fal.ai has put Nano-Banana-Pro up for both generative and editing. A great deal less annoying to sign up for them since they're a pretty generalized provider of lots of AI related models. https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/nano-banana-pro

Is there a model on Fal.ai that would make it easy to sharpen blurry video footage? I have found some websites, but apparently they are mostly scammy.

Unfortunately, this is a fairly difficult task. In my experience, even SOTA models like Nano Banana usually make little to no meaningful improvement to the image when given this kind of request.

You might be better off using a dedicated upscaler instead, since many of them naturally produce sharper images when adding details back in - especially some of the GAN-based ones.

If you’re looking for a more hands-off approach, it looks like Fal.ai provides access to the Topaz upscalers:

https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/topaz/upscale/image

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by osn9363739 »

brandon272 wrote: post #424
logankilpatrick wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…

Just a note that your HN bio says "Developer Relations @OpenAI"

I was interested. I does look like he just needs to update that. His personal blog says google, and ex-openAI. But I do feel like I have my tin foil on every time I come to HN now.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by phatfish »

mrguyorama wrote: post #251
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #121

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First three are interesting - all question / knowledge based where the answer is a picture. Hadn't really considered this.

The answer is a picture that almost certainly already exists. Why would you want a program that just makes one up instead?

So you can feel 1000x better about yourself when 1000x more resources are used to create an extra special image just for you. Rather than the canonical one served from the Wikipedia (or Google image search) cache.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by Zenst »

brandon272 wrote: post #424
logankilpatrick wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…

Just a note that your HN bio says "Developer Relations @OpenAI"

Sure it will get updated to same as Linkedin - Helping developers build with AI at Google DeepMind.

Imagine many on here have out of date bio's and best part - it don't matter, but sure can make some funnies at times.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by user34283 »

energy123 wrote: post #383
cyrusradfar wrote: post #370

I really hope Google reads these HN posts. They've had some big "product" wins but the pricing, packaging, and user system is a severe blocker to growth. If developers can't or won't figure it out -- how the heck are consumers?

And both their consumer apps are slow. You can replicate this yourself. Go to AI Studio, paste in 80K tokens of text, then type something on your keyboard, and see what happens. The Gemini web app is even worse somehow. A horrifically slow and buggy app. Not new problems either, barely any improvement on this over more than 1 year.

No issues here that I remember with the Gemini app on Android recently - half a year ago it was a slideshow with just a few conversations.

They're improving, probably.

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