Google Unleashes Nano Banana 2 Lite: Faster, Cheaper AI Imaging

• Google DeepMind’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite model, part of the Gemini 3.1 family, offers a balance of quality and speed for AI image generation.
• The model can generate images in approximately 4 seconds in ‘low-thinking’ mode, significantly faster than the standard Nano Banana’s 20 seconds.
• Developers using the API will pay less, with an average cost of $0.034 per 1,000 images, and all outputs include SynthID watermarks.

[Via Ars Technica]