Google TV Gets Nano Banana and Veo as Gemini Brings AI Creation to the Living Room

Google on April 29, 2026 announced a major expansion of Gemini features on Google TV, putting two of the company's flagship generative models — Nano Banana for images and Veo for video — directly into the living room. A new Create button inside the Gemini tab lets viewers experiment with both tools using voice prompts, with the rollout starting on Gemini-enabled TCL TVs in the United States and broader device support to follow.

Nano Banana, Google's image generation and editing model, brings on-screen photo editing controlled entirely by voice. Users can tell their TV to swap outfits in a family picture, change a background, or generate an entirely new scene, with edits previewed on the big screen and saved back to Google Photos. Veo, Google's video generation model, lets viewers create short clips from scratch by describing a scenario, or animate an existing still image into a moving sequence — capabilities that until now have lived behind dedicated apps and developer APIs.

Google Photos on the TV is also getting a Gemini overhaul. A natural-language search lets viewers surface specific memories — a vacation, a birthday party, a child's first steps — without scrolling through a library, and a new Remix feature applies artistic styles such as watercolor or oil painting to existing photos. Dynamic Slideshows introduce animated layouts, frames, and color treatments designed for the television form factor, and a "Short videos for you" row will start surfacing YouTube Shorts directly on the home screen.

The update marks the clearest sign yet that Google sees the television as a real surface for generative AI, not just a passive playback device. By packaging Nano Banana and Veo into a voice-driven Create button, Google is betting that families gathered around a 65-inch screen will want to make and remix images and clips together in a way that feels closer to a group activity than a solo phone session. It also gives Google TV a genuinely new selling point at a moment when the company is fighting to keep pace with Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Roku, all of which are racing to figure out what AI looks like in the living room.