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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Nano Banana went viral. Now, Google is bringing the same AI idea to video with Gemini Omni. The internet already has mixed opinions

An AI generated video clip of the same avatar in several different styles.

Google’s Nano Banana brought an AI photo generator that could create images that resembled real people – and now Google is giving the same treatment to generated video. During Google I/O, the tech giant announced Gemini Omni, a new AI that allows users to generate video from existing videos, photos, or text.

Like Gemini 2.5 Flash Image – better known by its viral code name Nano Banana – Gemini Omni aims to keep the likeness of the person in the inspiration photo or video intact, a task that generative AI has historically had difficulty with.

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