nano-banana is Gemini‑2.5‑Flash‑Image, beating Flux Kontext by 170 Elo with SOTA Consistency, Editing, and Multi-Image Fusion

**Google DeepMind** revealed **Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview**, a state-of-the-art image editing model excelling in **character consistency**, **natural-language edits**, and **multi-image composition**, dominating the Image Edit Arena with a ~170-180 Elo lead and over 2.5M votes. It is integrated into multiple platforms including Google AI Studio and third-party services. **Nous Research** released **Hermes 4**, an open-weight hybrid reasoning model focused on steerability and STEM benchmarks. **NVIDIA** launched **Nemotron Nano 9B V2**, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer with 128k context, top-performing under 10B parameters, and released a 6.6T-token pretraining subset. **InternVL3.5** introduced 32 vision-language models based on OpenAI's gpt-oss and Qwen3 backbones. **Ollama v0.11.7** added DeepSeek v3.1 support with hybrid thinking and Turbo mode preview.