Google PaperBanana: Redefining AI-Generated Illustrations for Academic Papers The Core Question This Article Answers: What exactly is Google’s newly released PaperBanana framework, and how does it solve the persistent challenges of automating scientific and technical illustrations? Google recently released a paper on PaperBanana, introducing a novel approach to creating illustrations for academic papers. For developers and researchers aiming to automate the creation of diagrams and flowcharts for their technical papers or blogs, this tool represents a significant leap forward. While existing image models like Nano Banana or GPT-Image-1.5 are already capable of generating images, PaperBanana is not merely another model. …