[koakuma-chan]

Why is it called nano banana?

[ehsankia]

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]

What are "the arenas"?

[patates]

Blind rating battlegrounds, one is https://lmarena.ai/ (first google result)

[kstenerud]

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]

People vote on the performance of AI, generating ranking boards.

[kstenerud]

Ah, that was the missing piece of information! Thanks!

[Jensson]

Engineers often have silly project names internally, then some marketing team rewrites the name for public release.

[ZephyrBlu]

I'm pretty sure it's because an image of a banana under a microscope generated by the model went super viral

[polynomial]

Or was that just marketing?