Nano Banana is the community nickname (and internal shorthand) for Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — a high-quality, low-latency multimodal image generation + editing model. This long-form guide (with code, patterns, deployment steps, and CometAPI examples) shows three practical call methods you can use in production: (1) an OpenAI-compatible Chat interface (text→image), (2) Google’s official […]
August 28, 2025 — xAI today introduced Grok Code Fast 1, a coding-focused variant in the Grok family designed to prioritize low latency and low cost for IDE integrations, agentic coding workflows, and large-codebase reasoning.The model is appearing as an opt-in public preview inside GitHub Copilot (VS Code) and is also available through xAI’s API […]
Image-editing AI has moved from fun toy to actual workflow tool in months — not years. If you need to remove backgrounds, swap faces, preserve a character across shots, or do multi-step compositing with natural-language prompts, several new models promise to do it faster and with fewer manual fixes.. In this post I compare three […]
Google lately unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — a native, high-performance image generation and editing model that brings real-time, conversational image creation and precise, multi-step editing directly into the Gemini product family and developer tools. The release, described by Google as a “state-of-the-art” update to Gemini’s multimodal stack, is positioned for both consumer creativity and […]
As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) solutions continues to surge, developers and enterprises face a growing challenge: how to integrate, manage, and optimize access to a wide array of AI models from different providers. Two platforms that have emerged to address this need are OpenRouter and CometAPI. Both promise unified APIs, transparent pricing, and […]
GPT-5 is a clear step up for developer-facing coding tasks — especially front-end UI generation, multi-file scaffolding and repository-level debugging — but it’s not a replacement for an experienced engineer. It excels at generating, refactoring, and explaining code, and its new API controls and function-calling improvements make it far more practical inside production workflows. That […]
DeepSeek-V3.1 is the latest hybrid reasoning model from DeepSeek that supports both a fast “non-thinking” chat mode and a more deliberate “thinking/reasoner” mode, offers long (up to 128K) context, structured outputs and function-calling, and can be accessed directly via DeepSeek’s OpenAI-compatible API, via an Anthropic-compatible endpoint, or through CometAPI. Below I walk you through what […]
ByteDance’s Seed team has released Seed-OSS, a family of open-source large language models led by Seed-OSS-36B, a 36-billion-parameter model that supports exceptionally long input windows and is being distributed under an Apache-2.0 license. The code and model cards were published on GitHub and Hugging Face on Aug. 20, 2025, and multiple variants — including a […]
Google’s Gemini has emerged as the company’s flagship generative-AI offering, and in 2025 the conversation shifted from “What is Gemini?” to “Will Gemini become the assistant that replaces Google Assistant?” The question matters because the answer affects billions of devices, developers, and the future of voice and ambient computing. Will Gemini actually replace Google Assistant? […]
Artificial-intelligence image tools have changed how designers, marketers, and hobbyists create visual assets — and a common question is whether Midjourney can produce images with transparent backgrounds or remove backgrounds cleanly. This article aggregates the latest official features, community workflows, and practical step-by-step instructions so you can choose the fastest, highest-quality route for your project. […]
