Google's speed is kind of insane — generating an image in 4 seconds while keeping costs down to 3 cents. Their video model has directly topped the leaderboard, and the comeback within half a year is truly ruthless.

Google released two new multimedia generative models: the image generation model Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini-3.1-Flash-Lite-Image) can generate 1K images in about 4 seconds, costing $0.034 per thousand images; the publicly tested video generation model Gemini Omni Flash topped the Video Arena blind test leaderboard with a score of 1404, leading Seedance 2.0 Mini by 101 points, demonstrating its overtaking of competitors within half a year.