🍭 Nano Banana Not So Nano 🍌

Good morning. Your feed woke up, saw Nano Banana, and we’ve all started questioning reality since… 🍌

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Nano Banana breaks brains

• DeepSeek V3.1

• ToolBox™

• And Everything Else

LMArena
🍌 WTF is a Nano Banana? Internet’s Losing It

The Bite: A mysterious image model called “nano-banana” has been popping up in LMArena’s Image Edit Arena and going viral for eerily precise edits and object persistence.

No official owner is named, but Google-teasing bananas from staffers lit the rumor fuse.

Creative pros are asking the big question:
cool demo… but Photoshop killer?

Snacks:

• LMArena = open, human-preference benchmarking hub.

• Shows up in 1v1 battles on LMArena. Not in the model picker.

• LMArena Image Edit Arena: last updated Aug 19, 2025; 2,395,114 votes.

• Banana emojis/posts from Google folks fueled the “it’s Google” theory

• CreativeBloq’s verdict: Not the end of Photoshop.

Why it Bites: If Nano Banana’s edit quality holds once actually live, things could weird fast.

That shifts power from manual retouching to prompt-driven layout surgery.
Great for speed, terrifying for trust.

Photoshop isn’t dead; it just got a new, very cocky intern.

Oh hey; we’ve got one of those…

Voice Dictation
🤫 Write 4x Faster With Your Voice

Flow turns speech into polished text as you talk.

• Removes ums

• Fixes grammar

• Updates when you change your mind.

Works on Mac, Windows, iPhone.

🍭 Steal This Prompt 🍭
🎨 Pop Art Explosion by @LudovicCreator

Turn anything into a neon-soaked pop art poster.

Think: Warhol if he discovered Red Bull.

Loud, saturated, screaming to be printed on a dorm wall or wrapped around an energy drink can.

1. Get the PROMPT → HERE

2. Paste into MJ

3. Replace the #’s with subject and colors

4. Watch it glow like a Vegas billboard at 2AM

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

BIG Model Upgrade
🤖 DeepSeek V3.1 Turns On The Agent Era (With A Switch)

The Bite: DeepSeek V3.1 debuts hybrid inference: Think and Non-Think.

Switch using a toggle and promising faster reasoning, stronger tool use, and agent skills.

Bloomberg frames it as a “step beyond its flagship and toward agentic systems”; OpenRouter listed it for yesterday.

Snacks:

• Hybrid inference: one model, two modes; “DeepThink” button to toggle.

• Agent upgrades: better multi-step tool use; SWE/Terminal-Bench gains.

• Stats For Nerds: 840B-token continued pretrain; 128K context; open-weight variants on HF.

• Bloomberg: faster answers; customized for next-gen Chinese-made chips.

• OpenRouter: cost = roughly $0.20/M in, $0.80/M out.

  • M = 1 million context tokens.

  • in = characters you type

  • out = characters + reasoning the model uses/outputs

• On average GPT-5 costs $0.52/M in and $4.13/M out.

  • This is an average cost of all 3 (5, Mini, and Nano)

  • A side-by-side comparison isn’t really fair…

Why it bites: A public “think toggle” is UX honesty: you pick speed or depth.

Are they “copying” GPT-5’s “thinking”, “fast”, or “auto” or is this the future of LLM unit economics?

As agent stacks mature, that switch becomes a budget knob too, dial up cognition only when a task earns it.

If V3.1 really nips at R1’s heels while moving faster, price-performance pressure just got spicier.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

🧊 Meta Freezes AI Hiring

→ WSJ report says Meta paused AI hiring after adding 50+ researchers/engineers; Meta calls it routine planning.

🛰️ China Puts AI Chatbot on Its Space Station

→ “Wukong AI” supports spacewalk planning on Tiangong; on-orbit + ground modules split tasks.

☢️ Anthropic Pushes ‘Nuclear-Style’ Safeguards

→ Building a classifier to flag concerning nuclear talk; deployed on Claude traffic with NNSA input.

📉 Musk Leans on AI to Revive X Ads

→ Bloomberg: X will use AI to rebuild ad targeting/formats amid a bruised ad business.

🧙 Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ = AI Flex

→ Sphere, WBD, and Google use AI to up-res, outpaint, and re-stage Oz for 16K wraparound screens.

AI Tools
🧰 ToolBox™

✨ Grok Companion — Subscription AI buddies with personality: anime-flirt Ani and rude-red panda Rudi bring character to your chats.

🌐 HeyGen — AI video studio: avatars, voice-clone, dubbing, localization, interactive avatars—no camera, no editing.

🎥 Creatify — Full AI ad studio: paste a URL, get avatar-led video ads, optimize via AdMax’s A/B testing and insights.

☺️ Hugging Face — The “GitHub for AI”: host models, datasets, and Spaces for all ML tasks.

🛠 GPT-5 in Lovable — Your agentic co-dev: plans, edits, fetches assets, and explains changes.

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