Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast EP 619: Nano Banana Uncovered: A practical guide from inside Google with Paige Bailey
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Sep 26, 2025 In this discussion, Paige Bailey, Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, reveals the magic of Nano Banana, a no-code app creation tool that transforms how creators build applications. She explores its Photoshop-like capabilities for image editing and showcases real-time demos, including creating a Dungeons & Dragons character generator. Paige emphasizes the democratization of development, enabling non-engineers to craft apps and utilize AI for tasks like sentiment analysis in Google Sheets. Her practical tips inspire listeners to dive into the world of generative AI.
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Natural-Language Image Editing
- Nano Banana acts as a natural-language Photoshop, letting users remove backgrounds, colorize, upscale, and generate grounded portraits.
- It turns creative tasks into simple prompts, lowering the barrier for non-designers to produce high-quality images.
Use No-Code To Democratize App Building
- Do try Build and no-code tools to turn domain knowledge into apps without learning to code.
- Empower product, sales, or science people to build solutions because AI removes the engineering bottleneck.
Sheets Demo Auto-Enriches Data
- Paige demos Gemini in Google Sheets to auto-fill stadium addresses and clean messy data via =AI(...) prompts.
- She highlights how it saves hours and unlocks workflows without Python or R knowledge.