Apple Shares Massive Dataset to Help Researchers Build Nano Banana-Like AI Models

Apple has unveiled Pico-Banana-400K, a new open-source dataset featuring 4,00,000 real and AI-edited image pairs for training text-based image editing models. Available under a research-only licence, it aims to help developers build better image-editing AIs. The release comes as Apple’s own AI progress appears to have slowed, with its long-promised Siri overhaul still pending.