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Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

Google DeepMind 30 June 2026, 16:02

Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, an image generation model, and made Gemini Omni Flash available to developers for video generation and editing. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in 4 seconds at a cost of $0.034 per 1,000 images, while Gemini Omni Flash costs $0.10 per second of video output. Developers can now chain both models together to rapidly generate images and convert them into animated videos within a single workflow.

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TLDRocket 21 July 2026

The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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