January 1, 2026

Open source Qwen-Image-2512 launches to compete with Google's Nano Banana Pro in high quality AI image generation

brown wooden table with chairs — myHQ Workspaces / Unsplash

When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use natural language to generate dense, text-heavy infog...