Google launches Mixboard public beta in US for AI mood boards

Google launched Mixboard, an experimental AI-powered mood board and visual brainstorming tool, into public beta in the United States on Thursday. Available through Google Labs, Mixboard lets users start projects from blank canvases or templates, generate and edit images with text prompts, upload their own photos, and organize ideas for use cases such as home decor, event planning, DIY projects and product concepts.

Google said Mixboard combines natural language prompts with generative image technology so anyone can quickly produce and iterate on visual ideas without an existing image collection. Users can choose prepopulated boards to edit or begin from scratch, ask the AI to make targeted edits or combine elements, and use one-click options such as regenerate or more like this to produce alternative versions. The tool can also produce text based on the images on a user’s board to create captions, labels or descriptive notes.

Mixboard’s image editing and generation capabilities are powered by Google’s Gemini family of models alongside a new image engine called Nano Banana, according to Google. Some reports identified Gemini 2.5 Flash specifically as the underlying model, while...