I tested Nano Banana 2.1 against ChatGPT, and it was close

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Oct 13, 2026, 2:58 am129 ptsTrending
Google has given its Nano Banana AI image generator another upgrade, and the latest version, Nano Banana 2.1, is arriving inside Google Gemini in an increasingly crowded field of tools that can turn a few sentences into remarkably convincing pictures. The promise is familiar, with sharper details, better…

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