India, Dec. 8 -- Nano Banana is not a random artificial intelligence art tool, but it is constructed using official technology at Google: the Gemini API. The documentation of Google indicates that the Gemini API is capable of generating images based on a text prompt as well as editing images, i.e. the API is able to generate images with a text prompt or edit images.

Google states in that documentation that there are two applicable models: "Gemini 2.5-flash-image" and "Gemini 3 Pro Image". The original Nano Banana is driven by the first model. The newer models are Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro, and these are based on Gemini 3 Pro Image, which is more sophisticated.

In the official site of Nano Banana, it is mentioned that the basic v...