alt Hacker News> Naina Raisinghani, 00 needed a name for the new tool to complete the upload. It was 2:30 a.m., though, and nobody was around. So she just made one up, a mashup of two nicknames friends had given her: Nano Banana.
Ah, that explains the silly name for such an impressive tool. I guess it's more a more Googley name than what would have otherwise been chosen: Google Gemini Image Pro Red for Workspace.
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jofzar • last Thursday at 3:35 AM
I honestly love the name nano banana, it's stupid as hell, but it's a bit of joy to say specially with how corporate everything is name wised these days.
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cmrdporcupine • last Thursday at 1:21 PM
I like that it's evidence that there's still some remnants of the old Google culture there.
Strongly disagree.
Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft all have a very confusing product naming strategy where it’s all lumped under Gemini/ChatGPT/Copilot, and the individual product names are not memorable and really quite obscure. (What does Codex do again?)
Nano Banana doesn’t tell you what the product does, but you sure remember the name. It really rolls off the tongue, and it looks really catchy on social media.