Workspace users get a new way to make visuals: Google Pics, an image tool that turns text prompts into finished posters and graphics. It ships to business customers and Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers.
Powered by the Nano Banana image model, the tool lets people generate posters, social graphics, and illustrations from text prompts rather than building them from scratch. Google is positioning it against Adobe Express and Canva, but the workflow is different: users prompt to create instead of designing on a blank canvas.
Beyond generation, Pics can isolate and transform objects, edit or translate text inside images, and support collaborative editing. Users can generate several versions of an image and pick the best one.
The feature rolls out over the coming weeks, starting with Docs and Slides today, with Google Drive support to follow.
The launch raises familiar questions about training data. Google notes Canva lets artists sell templates in a royalty marketplace, while Pics creates from an AI trained on artists’ work, with no equivalent payout channel.
