Google's "Bananas" Image Model Revealed

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Nano-Banana image model revealed by Google; Apple considers buying Mistral and Perplexity; Microsoft launches VibeVoice.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Gemini Automates YouTube Workflow

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Career Discovery Prompt

• AI Video Tutorial

• Course of the Day: AI for Business & Personal Productivity

Hottest AI News

DeepMind

Google's Mystery "Nano-Banana" Image Model Finally Revealed

Google has rolled out a major Gemini upgrade with its AI image model, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Launching across all Gemini platforms and developer tools, it brings sharper editing and fixes long-standing issues in rival tools, marking Google’s next big step against OpenAI in the AI image race.

Details:

• The model excels at precise edits from natural language while keeping faces, animals, and key details consistent. Rival tools like ChatGPT and Grok often distort faces or backgrounds when asked to make simple changes, but Google’s approach preserves integrity

• In testing, the model secretly ran as “nano-banana” on the crowdsourced platform LMArena, earning strong praise from unaware users. It ranks state-of-the-art on that and other benchmarks; Google’s Nicole Brichtova praises its better visuals and instruction-following

• This launch is strategically vital as AI image gen becomes Big Tech’s next battleground. GPT-4o boosts ChatGPT growth, Meta licenses Midjourney, and Black Forest Labs’ FLUX dominates benchmarks. Google positions its tool for practical uses with safeguards like watermarks and deepfake restrictions

This upgrade marks Google’s strongest push to close the gap with OpenAI, as ChatGPT draws 700M weekly users versus Gemini’s 450M monthly. Superior image editing could be key to winning users who want more reliable and consistent AI visuals.

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Apple

Apple Considers Acquiring AI Startups Mistral and Perplexity to Boost Intelligence Features

Apple is reportedly exploring major AI acquisitions as the tech giant seeks to accelerate its artificial intelligence capabilities and catch up with competitors who have outpaced it in rolling out AI features across devices.

Details:

• Apple has discussed acquiring Mistral and Perplexity, The Information reports. This marks a shift from Apple’s cautious M&A style. CEO Tim Cook recently signaled openness to bigger AI deals, underscoring Apple’s push to catch up with Google and Samsung in AI

• The financial stakes are high. Nvidia-backed Mistral is valued at over $6 billion after its Series B last year. The Financial Times reports it seeks another $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, making an Apple deal a major investment

• Bloomberg earlier noted Apple was considering a bid for Perplexity, which has backing from Nvidia and Jeff Bezos. None of the companies responded to Reuters’ requests for comment, and Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the talks

These potential acquisitions would mark a strategic inflection point for Apple as it attempts to close the AI gap with competitors and deliver more sophisticated AI capabilities to iPhone users and across its broader ecosystem of devices and services.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• VoiSpark (Life-time Deal): Create studio-quality, natural-sounding voiceovers from text or cloned voices using AI models such as ElevenLabs, MiniMax, or OpenAI

• Pikto AI Studio: Streamline your entire design workflow—generate, edit, and enhance images [submit your registered email here to receive 120 extra AI credits (first 100 sign-ups; valid through Aug 29)] [F-R-E-E]

• Jotform Instagram Agent: Auto-replies to DMs, comments, and story replies in your voice, uses your knowledge base for FAQs in any language, and logs everything to your AI Agent inbox [F-R-E-E]

• Mistral Medium 3.1: Mistral just beat top models like Grok 4, GPT-5, and o3 to climb to 2nd place on LMArena in the Text category (without style control) [F-R-E-E]

• NotebookLM: Latest update adds Video Overviews (turning documents into narrated visual slides) in 80 languages [F-R-E-E]

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AI Tutorial

How to Use Google Gemini AI to Automate Your YouTube Workflow

Every YouTube upload needs a strong title, an engaging description, smart tags, and chapters for easy navigation. Instead of spending hours on these, let Gemini AI generate them automatically. Here’s the step-by-step process.

1. Upload Video

   Go to Gemini, press the attachment button, and upload your video file.

2. Generate Summary

   Ask Gemini: “Summarize the key topics, themes, and highlights of this video in bullet points.”

   This gives you a structured overview to build better titles and descriptions.

3. Create Titles

   Prompt Gemini with: “Analyze this video and provide 10 compelling YouTube titles.”

   For better results, follow up by asking it to:

   • Rank the titles from most compelling to least

   • Adapt the titles for different audiences (educational, professional, casual)

4. Write Description

   Ask Gemini to generate a full video description that includes:

   • A strong hook to capture attention

   • Concise summary of the video

   • Call-to-action that encourages viewers to like, comment, or subscribe

5. Get Tags

   Request: “Provide keyword tags as comma-separated values.”

   Be sure to ask for both broad and niche-specific keywords to maximize discoverability.

6. Generate Chapters

   Ask Gemini: “Break this video into chapters with timestamps, each with a clear and concise title.”

   This makes your content more engaging and easy to navigate.

7. Repurpose for Social Media

   Optionally, request: “Write a short social media post promoting this video for LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.”

   This saves time when sharing your content across platforms.

8. Review and Finalize

   Check the generated outputs, make small edits, and paste them directly into your YouTube upload form.

Tip: Batch your prompts in a single doc or Notion page — this way you can copy-paste them for every video upload without starting from scratch.

Top AI & Tech News

• Microsoft released VibeVoice — an open-source 1.5B-parameter text-to-speech model that can generate up to 90 minutes of multi-speaker conversational audio

• Parents of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine have filed what is reported to be the first wrongful-death lawsuit against OpenAI

• Google is adding AI-powered language learning and live translation features to the Google Translate app, rivaling Duolingo

• GPT-5 boosts accuracy, coding, and reduces hallucinations; users split between its direct reliability and GPT-4o’s warmer tone

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney V7

Prompt:

a full-body leopard in motion, walking or leaping, with ink flowing from its limbs and tail, drawn in traditional East Asian ink wash painting style, strong sumi-e brush strokes and bold ink splashes, expressive fading textures, black and white only, emotional and dense pen line art inspired by Inoue Takehiko in the face and claws, abstract edges blending into brush strokes, clean bold silhouette, minimal pure white background, as a tattoo design --ar 4:5 --raw --v 7

Prompt of the Day

Career Discovery Prompt

This prompt guides you through a structured self-inventory to clarify your career direction and prepare for a targeted job change or growth plan. By answering questions about your current role, skills, motivations, past successes, work style, constraints, and learning capacity, you’ll reveal patterns, priorities, and realistic options for next steps.

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