{"slug": "new-model-nano-banana-2-1-google", "title": "New model: Nano Banana 2.1 (Google)", "summary": "Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on 2026-10-06, a gemini-flash-based model with text, image and video input, a 131k context window and 33k max output, according to the model listing on llmstatus.ai. Google has announced no retirement date for the model, which is also listed as google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1. The listing points developers to a provider announcement on models.dev and to llmstatus.ai tooling that scans repositories for models with announced end-of-life dates.", "body_md": "GG● Healthy\n\n# Nano Banana 2.1\n\nGoogle · gemini-nano-banana-2.1\n\nReleased2026-10-06\n\nRetiresno announced date\n\ngemini-flashtext+image+video131k context33k max out\n\nalso matches: \n\n`gemini-nano-banana-2.1`` google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/google-vertex/gemini-nano-banana-2.1)\n\nDoes your code call Nano Banana 2.1?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-nano-banana-2-1-google", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/google/google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1", "published_at": "2026-10-09 00:00:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-09 00:48:43.436326+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "Nano Banana 2.1", "gemini-flash", "llmstatus.ai", "models.dev"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-nano-banana-2-1-google", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-nano-banana-2-1-google.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-nano-banana-2-1-google.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-model-nano-banana-2-1-google.jsonld"}}