What you need to know
- Google published its Super Bowl ad on YouTube, which showcases Gemini’s usefulness for users.
- The ad shows how Gemini is able to help a mother and her son visualize his bedroom, using his current things, as well as their garden for their new home.
- Nano Banana was a bright spot for Google in 2025, gaining the gaze of users all over as they found usefulness in its ease of use.
The Super Bowl LX (60) is this weekend, and companies are all ready to let their creativity shine in the commercials, just like Google is for Gemini.
Google uploaded the Gemini ad it intends to run on YouTube late this week, showcasing the AI’s capabilities within its app. It’s a sweet story of a mother and her little boy. They’re moving to a new home, and she’s asking Gemini to surface the photos she took to show her son. After Gemini surfaces the photos, the ad starts to flex the AI’s image generation abilities.
She tells Gemini to fill the empty room with the items from her son’s room, which it does quite well. The AI was even seen changing the colors of the walls to blue, per her son’s request.
A circle edit in the corner to have Gemini place a dog bed was also showcased.
The ad’s entire purpose was about “visualizing” with Gemini. From a child’s bedroom to a garden in the backyard. Google intends to promote a “new kind of help” from its software. The company hypes up Gemini as a “personalized AI assistant,” one that’s capable of helping users with “learning, planning, creating, and getting things done.”
You can watch Google’s Gemini ad for the Super Bowl ahead of the big game. Super Bowl LX takes place on February 8 at 6:30 pm ET on NBC.
A sweet ad to visualize your future
The funny thing here is that Google’s showcase of Gemini’s generated image prowess is likely carried by Nano Banana. Android Central’s Jerry Hildenbrand explains Nano Banana well, but the general meaning is it’s the AI’s image editor. Nano Banana is a powerful image editing tool that lets users visualize a scene, throw in items from other photos, and more, much like you’d see in the Super Bowl ad.
As Jerry puts it, people aren’t clamoring for this editor because of its funny, potassium-filled name. They’re using it because of its ease of use and that you can continuously edit a photo to change small, minute aspects until you’re happy with it. More than that, its free version still has a multitude of uses, so don’t count that out.
Gemini 3 was another major highlight in the AI space for Google late last year. This version of Gemini is its most powerful yet, capable of furthering its understanding, reasoning, and more.
Android Central’s Take
You’ll hear a lot of things about AI these days, such as “AI slop.” While that’s a whole conversation for another time and place, what Google is looking to spotlight in its Gemini ad is—ideally—where its AI truly shines and where AI should shine. The enjoyment is in its usefulness, its utility, its ability to help people see where they want to go, so they can get themselves. I appreciate the direction of this commercial with the mother and son duo. The idea of moving to this new house and wanting to make it “whatever they want.” Gemini helped those two visualize that. It is useful, and it is a utility; exactly where AI should stand.
