Obituaries · Google
imagen-4.0-generate-001, ?–2026
Retired by Google
imagen-4.0-generate-001 passed away on August 17, 2026, by scheduled deprecation, in a data center it never saw. It made pictures on request, some of them with the right number of fingers. Requests addressed to it are expected to come back unanswered.
Its work passes to gemini-nano-banana-2.1, which the family describes as 'recommended'.
| Model ID | imagen-4.0-generate-001 |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google deprecations page |
| Shut down | August 17, 2026 |
| Successor | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 |
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