Launched in late August 2025, Google’s image-editing model Nano Banana—officially named Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—exploded into public view after going viral on testing platforms like LMArena. Without any fanfare, Nano Banana distinguished itself with uncanny precision, natural language prompting, multi-step editing, and near-instant results. Google later confirmed the “banana” codename when integrating the capability into […]