Google announced the change on its Keyword blog, tying Personal Intelligence to Nano Banana and Google Photos so the app can read your taste and likeness from apps you already use. We covered the feature when it first arrived for Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers, and today it opens to everyone who qualifies.

With your permission, it leans on Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search for context, so a prompt as short as "design my dream house" has something to work from. It can also pull real pictures of you from your library, skipping the upload entirely.

What it means if you already use ChatGPT or DALL-E

The key here is context. ChatGPT and DALL-E make great images, but they know nothing about you unless you spell it out, while Google already holds your Search, Photos and inbox and skips that step.

If you mostly create elsewhere, this does not change your tool, and you are missing a shortcut more than a better model. Still, the part Google leans on, knowing pretty much everything about you, is what rivals cannot easily copy.