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title: "AI Quick Tips 405: New Nano Banana Model"
description: Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 model, a multimodal AI tool for text and image processing with a 1M token context.
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# [AI Quick Tips 405: New Nano Banana Model](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/ai-quick-tips-405-new-nano-banana-model)

 Written by [Damien Griffin](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/author/damien) | Nov 14, 2026, 7:00:00 PM

It’s been a while but Google has a new image model - Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1)

#### It is their next-generation multimodal reasoning model.

- It can take text and image input with a 1M token context window
- It can output images and text with a 64K context window

 

The model was released in October so, if you are reading this, the model is available now.

 

#### They have it in all of the expected places

- Gemini App
- Google AI Studio
- Gemini API
- Google Search
- Google Flow
- Google Stitch
- Etc.

 

I do appreciate that Google publishes the known limitations with their models.

 

#### Some of the issues with this model are -

- Poor text rendering in small text, long paragraphs, page length
- Character consistency issues
- Limitations in advanced capabilities with world knowledge, 3D reasoning, and factuality

 

 

#### Watch a Video:

 

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