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Interactively Iterating With Nano Banana Pro To Visualize Our AI Pipelines For Presentations

Given that many of our AI analysis pipelines are fairly complex and would be ideal to visualize as beautiful images for stage talks, let's explore what it looks like to interactively iterate with Nano Banana Pro to come up with some interesting images.

Here is Nano Banana Pro's visualization of story cataloging of television news:

And of using Gemini 3 to synthesize global news into PDB-style reports.

Let's spruce it up a bit:

Make a beautiful infographic poster that represents the below. Make the image more about the workflow of processing the entire planet's news each day and deeply reasoning over it to create a planetary graph and model of the world and then distilling it down into a fully cited PDB-style deeply researched report.
What would it look like to apply Gemini 3's vaunted deep reasoning capabilities to take the first steps towards "planetary scale deep reasoning": the grand challenge of using AI not to summarize a document, write an email, make a clickbait image or generate a promo video, but to look across the entire planet each day and deeply reason and understand humanity itself? This requires scaling up from "tiny" tasks of examining single isolated documents to the "planetary" scale of reading, watching, listening and looking at everything said across the entire planet in realtime and looking across it all to synthesize it into a single mental image and model of the entire earth at once. We unveiled this grand vision at Web Summit last month and today we offer some first glimpses of that coming future, asking Gemini 3 to synthesize an entire day of a television news channel into an analytical report modeled after a Presidential Daily Brief that focuses on deeply reasoning over the entire day's coverage, distilling it into its component themes, narratives, patterns and findings, contextualizing those into their historical and geopolitical foundations, thinking about their implications and potential impacts and reporting all of this. Today we will start with the most basic: synthesizing a day's coverage into its underlying themes.

Let's try for something more inspiring:

make a powerful inspirational image centering on a sci fi high tech data/graph/network representation of planet earth at the center where the entire planet is made up of data flowing in from news from all over the world. AI is being used to deeply reason over the entire planet and generate a fully cited PDB-style analytical report reporting on the entire planet.

Let's use Gemini 3 Pro to improve this prompt:

improve this prompt. make the globe the center of the image and only news is flowing in. really inspirational and awe-inspiring:

make a powerful inspirational image centering on a sci fi high tech data/graph/network representation of planet earth at the center where the entire planet is made up of data flowing in from news from all over the world. AI is being used to deeply reason over the entire planet and generate a fully cited PDB-style analytical report reporting on the entire planet.

It offers three options:

A majestic, hyper-realistic sci-fi wide shot with a translucent, high-tech holographic Earth floating perfectly in the center. The planet is not solid; it is constructed entirely from millions of glowing data streams and illuminated text fragments representing global news, all flowing forcefully inward from the darkness of space to converge at the core. Surrounding the globe is a subtle, golden neural-network aura representing AI reasoning, synthesizing the chaos into order. The visual style is that of a "President's Daily Brief" from the year 3000—clean, analytical, and authoritative. Cinematic lighting, 8k resolution, volumetric rays, symmetrical composition, deep blue and gold color palette.

 A breathtaking digital art concept of the ultimate intelligence briefing. In the exact center is a rotating digital globe formed by converging rivers of white and blue light (news data). As the data hits the globe, it is instantly organized into structured, glowing geometric nodes. Floating elegantly around the central sphere are holographic, glass-like panes displaying abstract data visualizations and citations, symbolizing a deeply reasoned AI analysis. The vibe is sophisticated, serene, and all-knowing. High-tech command center aesthetic, deep depth of field, sharp focus on the globe.

The singularity of information. A centered composition of Planet Earth composed purely of flowing fiber-optic light. Streams of information rush from the edges of the frame toward the center, imploding into a dense, brilliant sphere of pure knowledge. The light pulses with the rhythm of an AI mind processing the world's events. The atmosphere is awe-inspiring and divine. Intricate details, distinct particles of light, dark void background to emphasize the glowing center, unreal engine 5 render style.

What about revising our original prompt by incorporating some of these suggestions?

Make an awe-inspiring and inspirational breathtaking scifi image of a giant globe floating in space that is a 3D holographic representation of planet earth made up entirely of data. a massive planetary-scale AI system is watching over that entire hologram and making sense of the entire planet at once.

Let's try and fix that AI:

No, the AI should be a solitary figure standing on the ground looking up at the globe

Still not quite there:

something less generic that that "ai robot". have it typing up a draft report that overviews what's happening across the globe. visually show how the AI is creating a report of earth.

Still not what we're after, but let's shift to topical categorization.

Make a sci-fi style high tech image of a disembodied AI system watching television news broadcasts and cataloging them into categories second by second like politics, economy, domestic, international, health, etc (not sports, entertainment, etc).

Let's try sprucing it up a bit:

No, make it a wall of broadcasts and a single broadcast is somehow highlighted and zoomed into and you can see how second by second it is categorized.

Let's try again with a new prompt:

Make a high tech scifi image of a multirow filmstrip-like display of a news broadcast and under each row is a row labeling every few seconds as a different topical category (domestic, international, politics, economy, health, tech).

Let's replace the human with AI:

No human watching it. have it be a disembodied AI agent.

This is too jarring:

 

Let's reduce the prominence a bit:

make the ai less stereotypical and visible. focus on the filmstrip more

Let's ask for Gemini 3 Pro's help:

improve the prompt below:

Make a high tech scifi image of a multirow filmstrip-like display of a row of tv news broadcasts zoomed into a single news broadcast that shows every few seconds sequence of the broadcast and under each frame is a row labeling it as a different topical category (domestic, international, politics, economy, health, tech). The overarching theme is using AI to watch a tv news broadcast and label every few seconds as a different topic.

Yielding:

Cinematic close-up of a futuristic holographic display, floating in a dark server room. The display shows a glowing, multi-row filmstrip of news footage being analyzed by AI. A bright scanning laser moves across the timeline, highlighting specific frames. Underneath the frames are complex UI elements and colored data blocks representing categories like "Politics" and "Tech." Depth of field, volumetric lighting, cyberpunk aesthetic, intricate interface details, 8k, photorealistic sci-fi surveillance technology. --ar 16:9 --v 6.0

It offered as an alternative:

A high-tech sci-fi interface screen displaying an AI video analysis tool. The composition features a central, horizontal timeline of a TV news broadcast broken down into individual sequential frames like a filmstrip. Below each frame is a glowing, color-coded metadata tag explicitly labeling the topic (Domestic, International, Politics, Economy, Health, Tech). In the background, blurred rows of multiple other video feeds create a "command center" atmosphere. The aesthetic is sleek, dark-mode UI with neon cyan and amber data visualizations, representing artificial intelligence automatically segmenting and classifying news footage. High resolution, 8k, digital art.

 

And a third option:

A sophisticated User Interface (UI) design concept for an AI video indexing platform. A central stream of news broadcast frames is arranged horizontally. Vertical lines connect each frame to a classification layer below, where distinct colored badges read "ECONOMY," "HEALTH," and "POLITICS." Surrounding the main timeline are faint data streams and waveform graphs. The style is clean, modern sci-fi, dark background with vibrant neon highlights, isometric view, high fidelity.