Summary
Nano Banana 2.1 improves visual quality, prompt adherence, multi-turn character consistency and text rendering. It also adds wide and panoramic aspect ratios across 1K, 2K and 4K output sizes, while the previous image endpoint is deprecated.
Why it matters
The update brings a more capable and cheaper image model into Google’s developer and enterprise distribution channels.
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