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Why is it called nano banana?

• ehsankia 1y ago
  Before a model is announced, they use codenames on the arenas. If you look online, you can see people posting about new secret models and people trying to guess whose model it is.
  • mvdtnz 1y ago
    What are "the arenas"?
    • patates 1y ago
      Blind rating battlegrounds, one is https://lmarena.ai/ https://lmarena.ai/ (first google result)
      • kstenerud 1y ago
        I don't quite get what this is? I asked the AI on the site "What is imarena.ai?" and it just gave some hallucinated answer that made no sense.
        • adventured 1y ago
          People vote on the performance of AI, generating ranking boards.
          • kstenerud 1y ago
            Ah, that was the missing piece of information! Thanks!
• Jensson 1y ago
  Engineers often have silly project names internally, then some marketing team rewrites the name for public release.
• ZephyrBlu 1y ago
  I'm pretty sure it's because an image of a banana under a microscope generated by the model went super viral
  • polynomial 1y ago
    Or was that just marketing?