{"id":164304,"date":"2025-11-28T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164304\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:46:08","slug":"sora-and-nano-banana-pro-throttled-amid-soaring-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164304\/","title":{"rendered":"Sora and Nano Banana Pro throttled amid soaring demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you were wanting some AI-generated fun this holiday weekend, you\u2019ll need to be efficient. Google and OpenAI have cut generation request limits for Nano Banana Pro and Sora, citing overwhelming demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Bill Peebles, who heads Sora at OpenAI, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billpeeb\/status\/1994268973072834616?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> free users will have six video generations a day. \u201cOur gpus are melting,\u201d he explained. Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/637542\/chatgpt-says-our-gpus-are-melting-as-it-puts-limit-on-image-generation-requests\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous limits<\/a>, Peebles did not say the measures were temporary, but noted users \u201ccan purchase additional gens as needed,\u201d part of a broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/811241\/sora-pay-for-extra-video-gens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">push to monetize the platform<\/a>. Limits for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers are unchanged, though not specified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/gemini\/answer\/16275805\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is also restricting<\/a> free users to two images a day on Nano Banana Pro, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/825667\/google-nano-banana-pro-test\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched last week<\/a>. The change, down from three, was <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/11\/27\/gemini-3-pro-free-limits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first noticed<\/a> by 9to5Google. It warns limits may change frequently and \u201cwithout notice,\u201d standard practice following popular releases. The company also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-limits-free-nano-banana-pro-image-generation-usage-due-to-high-demand-223442929.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> to be restricting free users\u2019 access to Gemini 3 Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were wanting some AI-generated fun this holiday weekend, you\u2019ll need to be efficient. Google and OpenAI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,1711,61,60,43,1682,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-164304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-tech","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}