Nano Banana Pro changes the image generation game (again)

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Google’s already had a giant week with the discharge of Gemini 3, but apparently, the tech giant was just getting warmed up.

The corporate just dropped a brand new upgrade to its viral Nano Banana image generator that brings Gemini’s intelligence and Google Search along for the ride — enabling a complete latest world of creative workflows.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google drops next-gen Nano Banana Pro

• OpenAI launches ChatGPT group chats to all tiers

• Use Nano Banana Pro to create stories, lead magnets

• Advocacy groups warn against AI toys for holiday season

• 4 latest AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

🍌 Google drops next-gen Nano Banana Pro

The Rundown: Google just launched Nano Banana Pro — its next-gen image model built on Gemini 3 — offering skilled editing, 4k outputs, SOTA text accuracy, and world knowledge for complex infographics and use cases.

The main points:

• Pro can handle as many as 14 visual references directly, and preserves character identities across five people for brand spanking new composition capabilities.

• The model can now generate images in 4K resolution, together with improved control over granular details, akin to camera angles, focus, and lighting.

• Pro also takes its predecessors’ text rendering skills to the subsequent level, with the flexibility to handle long text inputs, multiple languages, fonts, and graphic layouts.

• Integration with Google Search enables the model to tug data directly from the online for accurate text rendering, graphics, and world knowledge.

Why it matters: Nano Banana Pro is one other step up in visual creation, with its excellent text and graphic rendering, and the flexibility to go looking the online. Pro’s world knowledge is the most important differentiator, with an understanding (because of Gemini 3) that goes beyond complex prompting to enable completely latest workflows and creativity.

TOGETHER WITH RECRAFT

🎨 Turn conversations into production-ready design assets

The Rundown: Recraft Chat mode solves the most important pain in AI image and editing workflows— the constant back-and-forth between generation tools and editing software. Chat on the left, canvas on the appropriate, with full context preserved throughout your entire creative process.

Chat mode enables:

• Task execution that completes sequences of actions from a single conversation

• Brand consistency across assets from initial concept to final design

• Skilled control with styles, palettes, editing tools, and more

• Using Recraft’s in-house models alongside top external options in a single workflow

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OPENAI

🫂 OpenAI launches ChatGPT group chats to all tiers

The Rundown: OpenAI just rolled out its group chat feature across all subscription tiers after an initial test period, allowing as much as 20 users to concurrently collaborate with one another and with ChatGPT in the identical thread.

The main points:

• Shared chats are accessed through invite links, with ChatGPT gauging conversation flow and interjecting when appropriate or directly mentioned.

• Rate limits apply to AI responses moderately than human messages, with the usage counting against the user who triggered the model reply.

• Privacy features isolate group sessions from individual memory, with ChatGPT not retaining info from collaborative threads or applying personal context.

• The feature initially launched in 4 Asia-Pacific markets last week for a test trial and is now expanding to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers.

Why it matters: Group projects just got a strong latest collaboration tool for the AI age. It’d take a while to get the flow of using ChatGPT alongside friends or coworkers, but in a short while, we’ll likely see (and welcome) contributions from models in collaborative efforts as naturally as another human participants.

AI TRAINING

🍌 Use Nano Banana Pro to create stories, lead magnets

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn learn how to use Google’s Nano Banana Pro to create precise visuals, infographics, storyboards, and high-converting lead magnets — with accurate text and labels that finally make AI image generation usable for real work.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to the Gemini app (mobile or web), open the chat, select Tools → Create images → Considering, and ensure “Considering with 3 Pro” is chosen

2. Select your use case: visual anatomy diagrams (“Create an in depth visual anatomy of a automobile with clearly labeled parts”), manga-style storyboards (“Create a manga-style storyboard for Little Red Riding Hood”), or business infographics (“Create a visible canvas explaining Alex Hormozi’s strategy for leads, offers, and sales”)

3. For best results, first ask any LLM for a structured parts list or storyboard outline, then copy those details into Nano Banana Pro with clear instructions

4. Review your output, then download and share your image — turn frameworks into visual one-pagers, email lead magnets, or client handouts in minutes

Pro tip: Over-explain your instructions. Give the AI sufficient context to create.

PRESENTED BY INVISIBLE

💡Developing multimodal AI: An in-depth technical guide

The Rundown: Adding vision or audio to a text model doesn’t offer you a useful multimodal system — you wish perception, alignment, and decision-making over messy, synchronized streams. Invisible’s latest paper provides a practical approach to multimodal system design for researchers used to text-only models.

Within the paper, you’ll learn:

• Why text-era habits like “just add more data” fail in multimodal settings

• Methods to whiteboard projects before touching models: task, error cost, latency, evaluation

• Methods to design data schemas and pipelines that support cross-modal reasoning

Download the guide here.

AI & TOYS

🧸 Advocacy groups warn against AI toys for holiday season

The Rundown: Consumer watchdog Fairplay urged parents to skip AI toys this holiday season, with testing by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group revealing risks like inappropriate content exposure, privacy invasion, and developmental harm.

The main points:

• PIRG found that FoloToy’s “Kumma” bear willingly discussed explicit topics and provided instructions to access dangerous items like matches and knives.

• OpenAI suspended FoloToy’s API access for policy violations this month, with the corporate now “conducting an internal safety audit” and pulling products.

• The report also found AI toys collecting voice recordings and private data through always-on mics, with some sharing info with third-party corporations.

• Additionally they warn of the impacts of AI toys on children’s social development, finding addictive design and engagement features.

Why it matters: Minors and AI have been a sensitive topic throughout 2025, and AI toys at the moment are hitting the market despite the dearth of proper regulations, safeguards, studies, or kid-friendly models in place. While AI has massive potential for personalized learning, its use with children must be slow and careful, not rushed to the shelves.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🍌 Nano Banana Pro – Google’s latest image AI with improved text rendering

• ⚙️ Codex Max – OpenAI’s latest frontier agentic coding model

• 🤖 GPT 5.1 Pro – OpenAI’s powerful latest model for Pro users

• 🧊 SAM 3D – Meta’s system for creating 3D models from a single image

📰 Every little thing else in AI today

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AI2 released OLMo 3, a brand new family of open-source models — including the 32B 3-Think and Base that top benchmarks for open models of its size.

Perplexity launched the mobile version of its Comet AI browser assistant, now available to download for Android devices via the Google Play Store.

Chai Discovery published research showing its Chai-2 model can design therapeutic antibodies with accuracy, achieving an 86% success rate for drug-quality properties.

Stability AI announced a brand new partnership with Warner Music Group to develop commercially protected AI music models and professional-grade tools.

Manus rolled out Browser Operator, a brand new browser extension that enables its AI agent to operate directly inside users’ local browsers.

Google’s NotebookLM introduced Infographics and Slide Decks powered by Nano Banana 2, integrating the flexibility to quickly create visuals of source material.

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COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Zac T. in Lima, Peru:

“I take advantage of ChatGPT as a little bit of a health and fitness sidekick. I’ve arrange a number of running threads: one for tracking what I eat, one for gym programs, and one other for general health questions. Within the food-tracking thread, I’ve saved my usual breakfasts, meal-prepped lunches, and the pantry staples I take advantage of on a regular basis.

Every day, I tell what I’m planning to eat, and it gives suggestions based on my macros… The gym thread keeps me on course, especially once I’m traveling. If I would like a workout and don’t have equipment, it pulls together a body weight session that matches my needs.”

How do you utilize AI? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our last AI newsletter: OpenAI pushes Codex to the Max

• Read our last Tech newsletter: Apple’s next CEO is already waiting

• Read our last Robotics newsletter: Sunday’s humanoid can do your dishes

• Today’s AI tool guide: Nano Banana Pro for creating stories, lead magnets

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown