Release27d ago
Google officially ships Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1) GA: 1K/2K images now half the price of Nano Banana 2, and human-eval Elo 1050 beats Nano Banana Pro
On 2026-10-06 Google officially launched Nano Banana 2.1 and marked it GA in the Gemini API changelog as gemini-nano-banana-2.1. It is based on Gemini 3.6 Flash and is rolling out across the Gemini app, AI Studio, Search AI Mode, Flow, Stitch, Google Ads and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Image output is priced at $30 per 1M tokens (Nano Banana 2: $60), which works out to $0.0336 per 1K image and $0.0504 per 2K image, about half the old price. The model card's side-by-side human eval puts text-to-image Elo at 1050, ahead of Nano Banana 2 (990) and Nano Banana Pro (935). gemini-3.1-flash-image is now deprecated, with no shutdown date announced. This confirms the silent Flow rollout we reported earlier.
Tooling12d ago
Google previews Gemini API CLI (gemini-api), a zero-dependency Go binary that lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding agents generate media, transcribe and run managed agents from the shell
The Google AI Studio team released an experimental preview of the Gemini API CLI (command name gemini-api). It is a stateless, zero-dependency Go binary for macOS, Linux and Windows, open source under Apache 2.0. Any coding agent with shell access and a GEMINI_API_KEY can call text reasoning, image, video, music and speech generation, file and YouTube analysis, audio and video transcription, and managed agents such as Deep Research with one command. Media is written straight to disk and only the file path goes to stdout, so base64 payloads never land in the context window. Google labels it experimental and not a supported Google product.
Tooling46d ago
Google AI Studio Unveils Managed Agents Architecture with Antigravity Preview Model
Google AI Studio introduced its Managed Agents architecture powered by the antigravity-preview-09-2026 model. The update features optimized prompt caching for software repositories and high-throughput File APIs for frictionless multi-turn agent interaction.
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