Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation

Honestly? 'Nano Banana 2' is the worst model name I've ever heard. But that's the only interesting thing here. Faster image gen is cool, but Google's been chasing Midjourney and DALL-E for two years and they're still not there. Default in Gemini app means nothing if people aren't using Gemini.

The real question: can they compete on quality while staying fast and cheap? The market's moving toward specialized models (Grok for tweets, Claude for code), not all-purpose ones. Google's betting scale and speed fix everything—spoiler, they don't.