Google will let users connect their photos to the Gemini chatbot and Nano Banana

Google 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.

If a user opts in, Nano Banana can create personal images based on the user’s private Google Photos as opposed to needing images to be manually uploaded 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…