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I tested Nano Banana 2.1 against ChatGPT, and it was close

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Google upgraded its Nano Banana AI image generator to version 2.1 within Gemini, aiming to improve detail, instruction-following, and consistency. A side-by-side test against OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 showed both produce high-quality, photorealistic images with different artistic styles, indicating a close competition in AI image generation capabilities.

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