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[^3]\n\nGoogle made Pics available starting today to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra personal plans, to Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus plans, and to Google AI Pro for Education plans. [^4]\n\nGoogle announced on 2026-05-12 that Google Pics, an image generation and design application, has expanded from a limited tester group to broad availability. [^5]\n\nGoogle has launched Google Pics, a new AI-powered image creation and editing tool designed to compete with Canva. [^6]\n\nAnthropic cut prices for typical workloads by around 25 percent, as part of its new model launch. [^7]\n\nGoogle Pics is built natively into Google Workspace, allowing users to click an image in Google Docs or Slides to open the Pics editor as an overlay, with the ability to edit images uploaded to Google Drive expected in the coming weeks. [^8]\n\nGoogle said its Pics tool, built on the Nano Banana model, offers object-based editing capabilities including selecting individual objects, editing or translating text elements, cropping for different formats, upscaling to 2K or 4K, and executing multiple edits at once. [^9]\n\nGoogle Pics allows users to build designs from scratch, edit existing images, and use image segmentation to edit, move, or resize specific subjects and objects within a picture. [^10]\n\nAccess to Google Pics is currently available for users with active commercial Google Workspace subscriptions, specifically Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and AI Expanded Access plans. [^11]\n\nGoogle Pics is built on the Nano Banana generation model and is integrated into the Google Workspace ecosystem, including Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Drive. 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