Is that right? I didn't think Gemini was generating images directly, I assumed it was using a separate image generation tool.

The paper here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05530.pdf has a model card for Gemini 1.5 Pro that says:

    Output(s): Generated text in response to the input
    (e.g., an answer to the question, a summary of
    multiple documents, comparing documents/videos).