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Why is it called ‘Nano Banana’?

The codename for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is actually named after a person — Google product manager Naina Raisinghani, specifically, who gave a variation of her nickname to the AI model.

“Some of my friends call me Naina Banana, and others call me Nano because I’m short and I like computers. So I just smushed my two nicknames together. And it fit because it was a Flash model.”

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