Google enters the AI design race with Pics, a Workspace image tool built on Nano Banana 2

Google has stepped firmly into the AI design arena with Pics, a new image creation and editing app for Google Workspace, and it’s now beginning to reach a much wider audience. First unveiled at Google I/O 2026, Pics is starting to roll out to Workspace customers, with Google notifying administrators that it will be added as a core Workspace service in the coming weeks. For anyone whose work touches imaging software, it’s a development worth watching. You can read Google’s official announcement on the Google Workspace blog. The pitch is precision. Most AI image generators still work on a prompt-and-hope basis: you describe what you want, and if one element is off, you regenerate the whole thing and take another roll of the dice. Pics, built on Google’s Nano Banana 2 model, is designed to fix that. Its standout feature is object segmentation, which lets you select an individual element...