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Google Unveils EmbeddingGemma 2 With Multimodal Search and On-Device AI Support; Nano Banana 2.1 Announced

3:01 PM IST · October 7, 2026

Google Unveils EmbeddingGemma 2 With Multimodal Search and On-Device AI Support; Nano Banana 2.1 Announced

Google has announced EmbeddingGemma 2. This latest lightweight embedding model is designed to process text, code, images, audio, and video in a single, unified embedding space. The new model is built on the Gemma 4 architecture, and Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 is optimal for on-device inference. EmbeddingGemma 2 has 740 million parameters. It is available on Hugging Face and Kaggle and will soon be available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Model Garden. Google has also released Nano Banana 2.1, an image generation and editing model. It is based on Gemini 3.6 Flash.

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