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Did OpenAI just kill Nano Banana Pro?

The AI Search (YouTube)December 17, 2025Original link

This episode is a hands-on evaluation of OpenAI’s GPT-Image-1.5, with a running comparison to Nano Banana Pro using lots of small, practical tests.

  • Prompt-following and “knowledge” checks (including character/subject familiarity).
  • Filter and refusal behavior.
  • Spatial reasoning and multi-object composition.
  • “Utility” tasks like screenshots/interfaces, diagram generation, table → chart, and basic coding-related comprehension.
  • A few visual search / puzzle-style prompts (e.g., Where’s Waldo).

If you’re trying to decide whether a new image model is meaningfully better for day-to-day work, the value here is the breadth of test cases: it’s less about a single benchmark score and more about where failures still show up (text, layout, consistency) and which workflows feel ready to use.

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