Nicole Brichtova
@nbrichtova
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Product Lead, Generative Media @GoogleDeepMind (Nano Banana, Veo). Former strategy consultant. I tweet about product, strategy, and design. My own opinions.
San Francisco
Joined November 2024
New a16z episode with @oliver_wang2 and I: how we built nano banana, what made it go viral, and why I don’t think every 5-year-old’s drawing should look perfect with AI.
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
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Really good image generation means anyone can create any visual on any topic. That’s the magic
Nano Banana Pro is so important not because it is a really good image generator, but because a really good image generator unexpectedly unlocks a lot of new AI abilities, like the fact that AI can now research & generate compelling slides. On bottlenecks: https://t.co/AZAgUtITml
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#6 made my day. Nano Banana is about consuming information visually. And we’re just scratching the surface! 🍌💛
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Draw it, we’ll generate it! Really excited about this - makes creation so much more intuitive. Give it a try in @GeminiApp
New in @GeminiApp: Edit images with just a doodle ✍️ Just click into your image, draw the edits you want, and tell Gemini what to do. Prompt: Add a crown and a royal looking cape to my pet’s photo.
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Gemini 3 now comes in a smaller package and it's really fast and fun to use ⚡️⚡️⚡️. Give it a try!
Gemini 3 Flash gives you frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost. ⚡ Here’s how it’s built for speed and scale 🧵
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What's better than personalized on-brand marketing assets? Animated on-brand marketing assets! 🎦
Your brand , animated ⚡️✨ Try it out, tell us what you think 🕺🪩
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"Fruit". No🍌?!
Give Nano Banana Pro a one word prompt and show us what you get https://t.co/DsYzO0KfYM
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When you build a roadmap, don't list features. Start with the "wow" moments. Nano Banana: "Easily edit your images and still look like you." Nano Banana Pro: "Understand and visualize information." Work backwards from the delight.
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5/5 For all of these, I used the "now" image of an ancient site with the prompt: "Show me what it may have looked like at its heyday."
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Traveling back through time with Nano Banana Pro. I've always loved reading about these places and had a hard time imagining what they looked like back in the day. Problem solved! 🍌🧵 1/5 The Acropolis now and then
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Used @GeminiApp with a screenshot of my @WHOOP home screen + prompt: "Make a cute, minimalist 3D render “Daily readiness” infographic. Soft clay and ceramic textures. Import the current weather in SF and use my readiness stats. Recommend a workout and lunch"
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Today's vibe, courtesy of Nano Banana Pro and my sleep stats. Full prompt below 👇
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Used the @NanoBanana prompt as is and added "add a cute animal dressed for the weather" on the second turn. Giant hedgehog in a yellow raincoat anyone? 🦔🍌
It seems like a lovely day in London. Use the prompt below on Nano Banana Pro to make cute images of a location with live weather conditions. Make sure you have search grounding enabled to get the current weather.
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Call for Nano Banana feature requests!
👋🏽 I'm a PM on Nano Banana, let's just call me the Naina that goes banana over images. If you have any feature requests you find a-peel-ing or any big ideas you want to plantain into the team's brains, comment away! cc @nbrichtova @heyitsbeaaaaaaa @oliver_wang2 @m__dehghani
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Going from 1k → 2k+ feels like putting on glasses🍌
🚨BREAKING: @GoogleDeepMind’s Gemini 3 Pro users are still going bananas. 🍌 The community has been voting on Nano Banana Pro with 2k resolution, and it has claimed the top spot in major Arena categories vs. the default 1k variant. 🥇#1 in Text-to-Image (+8 point leap over
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New favorite prompt 👀🍌
Take photos and add googly eyes to all your photos with Nano Banana Pro and this epic prompt 👀😅 Prompt: Add illustrated googly eyes and stick hands on the [OBJECT] in an exaggerated comedic pose Tried in Adobe Firefly
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Full prompt: make an infographic about the seven wonders of the ancient world, on a parchment paper Follow up: translate all the text to czech, keeping everything else the same
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Text rendering is a bit like six fingered hands - if there's the tiniest error, the image becomes unusable. Nano Banana Pro is an impressive leap forward - and it's really close even for Czech, a language we didn't evaluate. Here are English and Czech side by side 👇
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