New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Google's playful yet powerful Nano Banana model, made popular through the Gemini app for its quirky, lifelike image generation, is branching out. The company has begun integrating the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model directly into AI Mode in Search and Google Lens, giving users access to advanced AI image editing and creation tools without leaving the Google ecosystem, according to a 9To5Google report.

Within Google Search's AI Mode, a new plus icon now appears at the bottom-left of the prompt box, replacing the carousel of suggested prompts with a cleaner list view, the report addd. Tapping this icon reveals new creative options: Gallery, Camera, and Create Images, the latter marked with a banana emoji.

As per the rep...