Google’s Nano Banana Image Model Enhances Lens, NotebookLM, and Photos: See the Upgrades!

Launched globally in early October after a testing phase, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, also known by the codename Nano Banana, will enhance various Google products. This image generation and editing model, which has already been used over 5 billion times, will be incorporated into Google Lens, AI Mode, and NotebookLM, the company announced in a blog post on Monday, October 13, 2025. An integration into Google Photos is also planned, though no specific date has been given yet.

Nano Banana Enhances Google Lens Visual Search Tool

Arguably the most significant update: the model will soon be integrated into Google Lens, enabling users to directly edit images captured from the visual search tool. As demonstrated in a video shared by Google, which can be viewed below, a new Create button, represented by a banana, will be added to the iOS and Android app menus.

After snapping a photo with either the front or rear camera of your smartphone, or selecting an image from your gallery, you simply need to enter a prompt describing the desired edits. You can then fine-tune the result with additional requests or share the image with friends and family.

This feature, initially launched in the United States and India “with plans to soon extend to other countries and languages,” Google notes, has also been integrated into AI Mode. In this conversational interface, not yet available in France, users can select the Create tool and enter a text query to generate an image from scratch.

Nano Banana Boosts NotebookLM Capabilities

In parallel, Google has initiated the rollout of an update for NotebookLM that incorporates the Nano Banana model. In this AI-powered research assistant, the Gemini image generation model enhances Video Overviews (or Résumé Vidéo in French), a feature available in France since August, which transforms notes and documents into an explanatory video narrated by an AI-generated voice.

In the application, available on desktop, iOS, and Android, Nano Banana will generate “useful, contextual, and aesthetically pleasing illustrations from imported sources,” Google states in another blog post. The generated videos can adopt one of six visual styles offered (Watercolor, Papercraft, Anime, Whiteboard, Retro Print, or Heritage) to make them more engaging and easier to understand. To leverage the model’s potential in NotebookLM, users simply need to import their sources and documents, select Video Overview, and then “click on the pencil icon on the corresponding thumbnail” to choose a graphical style.

This update continues our goal to make information more accessible and useful by transforming complex content into dynamic media that simplifies the understanding of challenging topics in a new light.

The Video Overview update will be deployed “starting this week” for NotebookLM Pro subscribers, before being extended to “all users in the coming weeks,” adds Google.