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30th June 2026 - Link Blog

Nano Banana 2 Lite ( via ) Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API ), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale".

I used AI studio to run this prompt:

Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio

I like that one better than the results I got from the other Nano Banana models when I tried this back in April. It spelled Forest Festival wrong in two different ways though.

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30th June 2026

at 10:15 pm

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