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Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made In this episode, we sat down with Google DeepMind’s Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova to discuss how Nano Banana was created, why it became so viral, and what’s in store for the future of image and video editing. 00:00 Intro 02:00...

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