Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats

A month ago, I posted a very thorough analysis on Nano Banana , Google’s then-latest AI image generation model, and how it can be prompt engineered to generate high quality and extremely nuanced images that most other image generations models can’t achieve, including ChatGPT at the time. For example, you can give Nano Banana a prompt with a comical amount of constraints: Create an image featuring three specific kittens in three specific positions. All of the kittens MUST follow these descriptions EXACTLY: - Left: a kitten with prominent black-and-silver fur, wearing both blue denim overalls and a blue plain denim baseball hat. - Middle: a kitten with prominent white-and-gold fur and prominent gold-colored long goatee facial hair, wearing a 24k-carat golden monocle. - Right: a kitten with prominent #9F2B68-and-#00FF00 fur, wearing a San Franciso Giants sports jersey. Aspects of the image composition that MUST be followed EXACTLY: - All kittens MUST be positioned according to the "rule of thirds" both horizontally and vertically. - All kittens MUST lay prone, facing the camera. - All kittens MUST have heterochromatic eye colors matching their two specified fur colors. - The image is shot on top of a bed in a multimillion-dollar Victorian mansion. - The image is a Pulitzer Prize winning cover photo for The New York Times with neutral diffuse 3PM lighting for both the subjects and background that complement each other. - NEVER include any text, watermarks, or line overlays. Nano Banana can handle all of these constraints easily: Exactly one week later, Google announced Nano Banana Pro, another AI image model that in addition to better image quality now touts five new features: high-resolution output, better text rendering, grounding with Google Search, thinking/reasoning, and better utilization of image inputs. Nano Banana Pro can be accessed for free using the Gemini chat app with a visible watermark on each generation, but unlike the base Nano Banana, Google AI…