{"id":972009,"date":"2025-11-05T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972009"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:59:29","slug":"how-googles-most-popular-photo-generation-ai-model-got-nano-banana-name-and-what-it-is-officially-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/how-googles-most-popular-photo-generation-ai-model-got-nano-banana-name-and-what-it-is-officially-called\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google&#8217;s \u2018most popular\u2019 photo generation AI model got Nano Banana name and what it is officially called"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s latest image generation model, Gemini Nano Banana, became a viral sensation, yet few knew how it got its popular name. Now, David Sharon, a group product manager for the Gemini App, revealed the origin story on the Made By Google Podcast. He explained that an employee named Nina initially provided \u201cNano Banana\u201d as a simple placeholder name, and it unexpectedly stuck, turning into one of AI&#8217;s most recognisable names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNano Banana was created by a PM named Nina. And while she was submitting, when you submit a model anonymously to LM Arena, you need to give it a placeholder name,\u201d Sharon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s latest image generation model, Gemini Nano Banana, became a viral sensation, yet few knew how it got its popular name. Now, David Sharon, a group product manager for the Gemini App, revealed the origin story on the Made By Google Podcast. He explained that an employee named Nina initially provided \u201cNano Banana\u201d as a simple placeholder name, and it unexpectedly stuck, turning into one of AI&#8217;s most recognisable names. \u201cNano Banana was created by a PM named Nina. And while she was submitting, when you submit a model anonymously to LM Arena, you need to give it a placeholder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}