Nano Banana can now make personalized AI Images based on your Photos library

Source: Mashable Tech

Google Announces Gemini Personal Intelligence in Nano Banana 2

Google announced that the Gemini Personal Intelligence feature is now available in Nano Banana 2, the company’s popular AI image model. Instead of uploading a single photo, users can grant Nano Banana access to their Google Photos library, allowing the tool to generate personalized images based on the user’s existing photos.

“One of the biggest hurdles in AI image generation is finding the right prompt,” reads a Google blog post. “Previously, to get a result that felt truly personal, you had to write long, detailed descriptions and manually upload a reference photo just to give Gemini the right context. Now, Personal Intelligence gives Gemini an inherent understanding of your preferences from the start.”

Nano Banana is one of the web’s leading AI image generators and is especially good at editing photos. With Personal Intelligence, it can reference your images and Labels to create pictures of you, your pets, or anything else in your library.

How Personal Intelligence Works

Google provides several examples of how the feature can be used. Instead of uploading a family photo and writing a detailed prompt, you can simply tell Gemini to:

• “Make a claymation image of my family.”
• “Design my dream house.”
• “Create a picture of my desert island essentials.”

Example Images

Credit: Google

Credit: Google

Users will need to organize and label their photos for the feature to work as intended.

Privacy and Data Use

Before granting an AI tool like Gemini or Nano Banana access to your entire photo library, it’s important to understand how your images will be used.

Google states that Gemini will not directly train its models on your private photos. Instead, the system may use the photos, prompts, and AI‑generated images that appear in the Gemini app to improve functionality. The blog post explains:

“The Gemini app does not directly train its models on your private Google Photos library. We train on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini and the model’s responses, to improve functionality over time. Connecting your Google apps to Gemini remains an opt‑in experience that you can adjust in your settings at any time.”

For more details on training and privacy, see the Google Gemini Privacy Hub.