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Oliver Wang

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

Inside Nano Banana šŸŒ and the Future of Vision-Language Models with Oliver Wang

Published
September 23, 2025
Duration
1h 3m
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Last updated
Aug 16, 2026

Discusses google-ai, multimodal.

Summary

Today, we’re joined by Oliver Wang, principal scientist at Google DeepMind and tech lead for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—better known by its code name, ā€œNano Banana.ā€ We dive into the development and capabilities of this newly released frontier vision-language model, beginning with the broader shift from specialized image generators to general-purpose multimod…

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Today, we’re joined by Oliver Wang, principal scientist at Google DeepMind and tech lead for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—better known by its code name, ā€œNano Banana.ā€ We dive into the development and capabilities of this newly released frontier vision-language model, beginning with the broader shift from specialized image generators to general-purpose multimodal agents that can use both visual and textual data for a variety of tasks. Oliver explains how Nano Banana can generate and iteratively edit i

Themes

  • google-ai
  • multimodal