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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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1092 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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fariszr ◴[26 Aug 25 15:15 UTC] No.45027760[source]▶
This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Nano banana aka gemini 2.5 flash is insanely good. It made a 171 elo point jump in lmarena!

Just search nano banana on Twitter to see the crazy results. An example. https://x.com/D_studioproject/status/1958019251178267111

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hapticmonkey ◴[26 Aug 25 21:29 UTC] No.45032553[source]▶
Before AI, people complained that Google was taking world class engineering talent and using it for little more than selling people ads.

But look at that example. With this new frontier of AI, that world class engineering talent can finally be put to use…for product placement. We’ve come so far.

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1. vineyardmike ◴[27 Aug 25 06:44 UTC] No.45036188[source]▶
> finally be put to use…for product placement.

Did you think that Google would just casually allow their business to be disrupted without using the technology to improve the business and also protecting their revenue?

Both Meta and Google have indicated that they see Generative AI as a way to vertically integrate within the ad space, disrupting marketing teams, copyrighters, and other jobs who monitor or improve ad performance.

Also FWIW, I would suspect that the majority of Google engineers don't work on an ad system, and probably don't even work on a profitable product line.