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Apple Unveils 400K Image Dataset for AI Editing

10/31/2025

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Apple has launched the Pico-Banana-400K dataset, a collection of 400,000 curated images to improve AI photo editing guided by text prompts.
The dataset covers 35 edit types across eight categories, from color adjustments to complex transformations.
Each image was processed with Apple’s Nano-Banana model and evaluated for quality.
The dataset includes subsets for basic training, preference comparisons, and multi-turn editing while being available for non-commercial research on GitHub.

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Apple has launched the Pico-Banana-400K dataset, a collection of 400,000 curated images to improve AI photo editing guided by text prompts.
The dataset covers 35 edit types across eight categories, from color adjustments to complex transformations.
Each image was processed with Apple’s Nano-Banana model and evaluated for quality.
The dataset includes subsets for basic training, preference comparisons, and multi-turn editing while being available for non-commercial research on GitHub.