By lowering the fiscal barrier to high-frequency image generation, Google is making a direct play to lock enterprise developers into its commercial platform ecosystem. Google is upgrading its AI image generation capabilities today with the debut of Nano Banana 2 (NB2) Lite, an optimized model built for rapid execution and tight infrastructure budgets. Technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image on Google'... [5571 chars]