GoKawiilGoogle is letting the Gemini AI chatbot connect to personal photos with the Nano Banana image generation tool.
Google said Thursday it will allow users to connect their Personal Intelligence, an AI feature that connects Google apps for personalized answers, with its Gemini chatbot.
By opting in, Nano Banana can create personal images based on a user's private Google Photos as opposed to manually uploading images to the chatbot.
Users can ask Gemini to "create a claymation image of me and my family enjoying our favorite activity" and Gemini can generate that specific image for you automatically, the company said in its blog post announcement.
Nano Banana was a hit when it launched last year, as people began uploading personal photos to create digital miniature figurines of themselves. It was so popular that it overloaded the company's infrastructure, forcing Google to place temporary limits on usage to ease the burden on its custom-designed chips called tensor processing units.
It also pushed the Gemini app to the number one spot on Apple 's App Store, de-throning OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Despite the popularity, the ability to directly connect to a user's photo library represents a bigger step in the AI chatbot link to private information.