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She Named Google's Nano Banana. She Has an Idea Why It Went Viral.

The playful codename 'Nano Banana' combines Raisinghani's nicknames and helped boost the model's popularity globally from launch day, her team said.

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Google DeepMind Product Manager Naina Raisinghani bestowed Google's popular AI image generation model with its nicknameNaina Raisinghani/XGoogle finally revealed the origin of Nano Banana's codename.Product Manager Naina Raisinghani said it was a play off a nickname her friends gave her.She also explained why she thinks it has been such a big hit for Google.The person who named Google's Nano Banana AI image-generation model has a pretty good ide…

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Google announced the origin of the name Nano Banana, one of its artificial intelligence tools for the generation and editing of images, and explained that its name arose from an internal decision made during the initial development of the model.You might be interested: Will Spotify go up in price in Mexico in 2026?This is known so far According to information published by the Google DeepMind team on its official blog, the name was not the result…

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Android Authority broke the news in on Friday, January 16, 2026.
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