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Google Gemini’s AI Maxwell Zeff AM PDT · August 26, 2025 Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI

The update, called Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini’s new AI

Google’s new tool has already drawn attention. In recent weeks, social media users raved over an impressive AI

strange object spotted under the microscope over the weekend in the lab… pic.twitter.com/t1SBhqAnL0

Google says it’s behind the model (if it wasn’t obvious already from all the banana-related hints), which is really the native

“We’re really pushing visual quality forward, as well as the model’s ability to follow instructions,” said Nicole Brichtova, a product lead on visual generation models at Google DeepMind, in an interview with TechCrunch.

“This update does a much better job making edits more seamlessly, and the models outputs are usable for whatever you want to use them for,” said Brichtova.

To keep up with OpenAI and Google, Meta announced last week that it would license AI

Perhaps Gemini’s impressive AI

Brichtova says Google specifically designed the

While Gemini’s new AI

Now, Google feels that it’s struck a better balance.

“We want to give users creative control so that they can get from the models what they want,” said Brichtova. “But it’s not like anything goes.”

The generative AI section of Google’s terms of service prohibits users from generating “non-consensual intimate imagery.” Those same kinds of safeguards don’t seem to exist for Grok, which allowed users to create AI-generated explicit images resembling celebrities, such as Taylor Swift.

To address the rise of deepfake imagery, which can make it hard for users to discern what’s real online, Brichtova says that Google applies visual watermarks to AI-generated images, as well as identifiers in its metadata. However, someone scrolling past an

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