Google Expands AI Media and Agent Capabilities With Nano Banana 2 Lite, Gemini Omni Flash, and Spark for Mac


Google has launched a collection of AI updates spanning picture era, video creation, and desktop agent capabilities, consolidating its place throughout a number of fronts of the generative AI market.

The corporate launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, a sooner and extra inexpensive picture era mannequin able to producing photographs in 4 seconds at $0.034 per thousand photographs. Designed for high-volume workflows requiring fast iteration, it replaces the unique Nano Banana because the entry-level choice within the product line, which additionally contains the extra highly effective Nano Banana Professional. Alongside it, Google introduced a wider launch of Gemini Omni Flash, first proven at Google I/O, priced at $0.10 per second of video output. A brand new demo software, Omni Product Studio, was additionally unveiled, changing static photographs into cinematic e-commerce movies.

Google additionally introduced Gemini Spark, its AI desktop agent, to macOS. Out there in beta to Google AI Extremely subscribers within the U.S., Spark can now work with native information, with multi-step phone-to-desktop activity delegation promised shortly. New integrations embrace Google Duties, Google Hold, Canva, Dropbox, Instacart, OpenTable, and Zillow Leases, enabling Spark to deal with duties starting from grocery orders to condo bookings. Actual-time matter monitoring and customized MCP assist had been additionally added, placing Spark in additional direct competitors with Claude Desktop, Microsoft Copilot, and different desktop AI brokers.