AI image generation is good enough to improve how we communicate

I haven’t played with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image yet, but this tweet is a reminder that I should. It started appearing in the model arenas under the name Nano Banana, with a lot of buzz about how good it is.

It’s still going to take a kind of skill to get good results, I’m sure, and that’s not an area I’ve invested much attention, but I have some projects coming up that might benefit.

I noticed nano banana has changed PowerPoint. People who are good at using it (& have good imaginations) can come up with genuinely funny or interesting images that make presentations more compelling and coherent - no more pasted-in cartoons

A new skill for the presenting class
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) September 18, 2025