Google ships Nano Banana 2.1, jumps 80 points on LMArena's text-to-image board
danielrock · x · 2026-10-07
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, its latest image generation and editing model, citing gains in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency. On LMArena it ranks #4 in Multi-Image Edit (1431 pts), #5 in Text-to-Image (1328 pts), and #6 in Image Edit (1428 pts) — up +80, +67, and +38 points respectively over Nano Banana 2.
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