Why is it called nano banana?

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.

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mvdtnz 7 days ago | parent [-]

What are "the arenas"?

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patates 7 days ago | parent [-]

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

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kstenerud 7 days ago | parent [-]

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.

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adventured 7 days ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	kstenerud 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, that was the missing piece of information! Thanks!

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Jensson 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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ZephyrBlu 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	polynomial 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Or was that just marketing?