Google just pushed a new batch of Gemini AI features to Google TV, expanding what the platform can do beyond content search and basic voice commands.
The update includes two headline additions: Nano Banana, a tool for applying AI-generated transformations to photos, and Veo, Google's video generation model that creates short video clips from prompts or existing footage. Both run through the Gemini AI layer Google has been building into its TV software over the past year. According to TechCrunch's report, the rollout represents Google's continued push to make its TV software an active creative surface rather than purely a passive viewing platform.
Whether anyone actually wants to transform photos on their television is a reasonable question. It's a lean-back context, not a lean-forward one. The features will live or die by placement - buried in a settings menu, they'll be ignored; surfaced in a natural moment like a screensaver flow or photo gallery mode, they might see real use.
For Google, the move follows a clear pattern: ship Gemini into every screen it controls. Phones, laptops, tablets, now TVs. No new hardware requirements or pricing changes were announced alongside the update.