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The official name may be Gemini 2.5 Flash, but on the internet it’s better known by its quirkier nickname: Nano Banana. So how did one of Google’s most advanced AI models end up sounding like a fruit snack?
It all started as a late-night accident. According to David Sharon, Gemini Apps’ Multimodal Generation Lead, the team needed a placeholder name for an anonymous model leaderboard. At 2 am, someone typed “Nano Banana” — never imagining it would stick. But when that unnamed model went on to top the LM Arena image editing charts, the…
