Google has unveiled groundbreaking experimental image-generation capabilities for its Gemini 2.0 Flash model, enabling users to create, upload, and edit images directly within the language model. This eliminates the need for separate image-generation systems, marking a significant leap in AI-driven visual content creation.
Available via API and in Google AI Studio, the 2.0-flash-exp model supports both image and text outputs. Users can edit images through natural text conversations, leveraging Gemini's multimodal foundation to maintain character consistency and understand real-world concepts seamlessly.
For example, you can prompt Gemini to generate a story with accompanying visuals and refine the output through dialogue. Google highlights that Flash 2.0 excels in text rendering, making it ideal for creating ads, social media posts, and other text-heavy designs.
This upgrade represents a major shift in AI-generated visual content, moving away from standalone image models to language models that natively comprehend both text and visuals. As natural language prompting continues to dominate AI applications, image editing is poised to follow suit.