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Google makes Gemini’s personalized image generation free for all US users

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Gemini’s Nano Banana image generation, which creates AI images from your Google data, is now free for all eligible US users instead of paid subscribers only.

Google is making Gemini’s personalized AI image generation free for all eligible users in the United States, removing a paywall that had restricted the feature to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers since its launch in April. The expansion, announced on Sunday, lets any US user aged 13 or older generate images informed by their Google account data, while editing capabilities remain limited to users 18 and older. The move opens one of Gemini’s most distinctive features to the app’s broader user base, which reached 900 million monthly active users at Google I/O last month.

The feature is built on Nano Banana, Google’s native image generation model for the Gemini family, and draws on the Personal Intelligence framework that connects Gemini to a user’s...

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Google says the Gemini app now offers Nano Banana image generation to eligible US users for free; it was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users

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