Oct 18, 2026 · 21 min · 18 segments
Nano Banana Pro is no incremental upgrade. From double exposures to almost (!) perfect infographics, comic strips, to pricing, benchmarks and more, I go through 10 facets of the new, model you won’t…
Less than six hours ago, Google added the word pro to nano banana for a very good reason.
I happen to think nano banana pro, their new texture image model, will come to be seen as the first image model that will be used regularly by professionals as well as enthusiasts.
don't cover image gen models often on this channel but i was actually shocked by the quality and yes i use that word advisedly as well as very rarely anyway in this video i will try to show you why with 10 insights you might not have gotten just from scrolling through cool examples on insta or x or wherever starting quite frankly with this one because damn son that is amazing All I asked of Nanobanana Pro was give me Rake's Progress by William Hogarth, but set in 2025.
The Rake's Progress are a set of 18th century paintings, copies of which I had by my bed as a child.
They chart the rise and fall of the eponymous Rake, the wayward young man.
But just in case you can't see the image clearly, look at a few of these panels.
This guy gets rich, just like in the original set of paintings.
Here, presumably via Dogecoin, but look at the Monster Energy drinks, the fact that he used to work for Deliveroo.
He used to get deals for therapeutic ketamine, but he followed the adage, hodl till you die, and got rich.
Clearly, he then bought NFTs, tried a bit of life extension, or in other words, tried not to die.
Just like in the original paintings, though, people are already starting to gossip, as you can I'd have been pretty impressed just by one of these being the image.
He gets into some debauchery and then there's a margin call.
Then in the original he goes to a debtor's prison and I've actually been to that location in London but here the prison is the gig economy.
Notice also the eviction notice from Megacorp Housing Solutions.
Finally, just like the original, he ends up in Bedlam or the Madhouse.
In this case, a dopamine ward.
While a few of us might get focused on the tiny smudges or details that aren't quite perfect, looked at as a whole, I think that's just incredible.
Many of you may not have been following image gen models that closely, but here is the original Nano Banana, not Nano Banana Pro.
This is Gemini 2.5 flash image and its equivalent attempt.
There's definitely something here, but the difference is stark.
So you might think, well, is Nano Banana that much of a watershed then? If Seedream can do this, is it really a qualitative step forward? By the end of this video, I think you might agree with me that it is.
I asked for a close-up of a topographic map of London, but the map is made entirely of embroidered felt and yarn.
Less than six hours ago, Google added the word pro to nano banana for a very good reason.
I happen to think nano banana pro, their new texture image model, will come to be seen as the first image model that will be used regularly by professionals as well as enthusiasts.
don't cover image gen models often on this channel but i was actually shocked by the quality and yes i use that word advisedly as well as very rarely anyway in this video i will try to show you why with 10 insights you might not have gotten just from scrolling through cool examples on insta or x or wherever starting quite frankly with this one because damn son that is amazing All I asked of Nanobanana Pro was give me Rake's Progress by William Hogarth, but set in 2025.
The Rake's Progress are a set of 18th century paintings, copies of which I had by my bed as a child.
They chart the rise and fall of the eponymous Rake, the wayward young man.
But just in case you can't see the image clearly, look at a few of these panels.
This guy gets rich, just like in the original set of paintings.
Here, presumably via Dogecoin, but look at the Monster Energy drinks, the fact that he used to work for Deliveroo.
He used to get deals for therapeutic ketamine, but he followed the adage, hodl till you die, and got rich.
Clearly, he then bought NFTs, tried a bit of life extension, or in other words, tried not to die.
Just like in the original paintings, though, people are already starting to gossip, as you can I'd have been pretty impressed just by one of these being the image.
He gets into some debauchery and then there's a margin call.
Then in the original he goes to a debtor's prison and I've actually been to that location in London but here the prison is the gig economy.
Notice also the eviction notice from Megacorp Housing Solutions.
Finally, just like the original, he ends up in Bedlam or the Madhouse.
In this case, a dopamine ward.
While a few of us might get focused on the tiny smudges or details that aren't quite perfect, looked at as a whole, I think that's just incredible.
Many of you may not have been following image gen models that closely, but here is the original Nano Banana, not Nano Banana Pro.
This is Gemini 2.5 flash image and its equivalent attempt.
There's definitely something here, but the difference is stark.
So you might think, well, is Nano Banana that much of a watershed then? If Seedream can do this, is it really a qualitative step forward? By the end of this video, I think you might agree with me that it is.
I asked for a close-up of a topographic map of London, but the map is made entirely of embroidered felt and yarn.
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