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Gemini\u2019s Nano Banana<\/a> picture generator was one among Google\u2019s most talked-about launches of 2025. Inside a month of its August debut, the device had been used to generate greater than 5 billion<\/a> photographs on the Gemini app. However why is it referred to as Nano Banana? <\/p>\n Weeks earlier than the AI picture generator<\/a> was formally launched, Google wished to check it on LMArena, a public platform that runs blind comparability exams and ranks AI fashions primarily based on varied use instances. The mannequin was nonetheless being refined, so the crew wished to ship it to LMArena with a codename. Utilizing the mannequin\u2019s technical identify, Gemini 2.5 Flash Picture, would have been a useless giveaway that it got here from Google.<\/p>\n The controversy over a codename, nonetheless, went on for hours. \u201cAt 2:30 a.m., one of many PMs messaged me saying we would have liked to submit it, and I stated, \u2018OK, how about one thing humorous like \u2018Nano Banana’?\u201d Google product supervisor Naina Raisinghani writes in a weblog submit<\/a>. Maybe because of the early morning hour, the \u201cfully nonsensical” suggestion was authorised instantly.<\/p>\n The identify will not be fully random, although. As Raisinghani explains, \u201cA few of my buddies name me Naina Banana, and others name me Nano as a result of I\u2019m quick and I like computer systems. So I simply smushed my two nicknames collectively,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n When the mannequin formally launched as a part of Gemini in late August, the codename turned its official identification. The crew gave it a peeled-banana emblem and turned its button in AI Studio yellow.<\/p>\n