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fouronnes3 11 hours ago

I guess the true endgame of AI products is naming them. We still have quite a way to go.

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timenotwasted 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We just need a new AI for that.

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riskable 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Need a name for something? Try our new Mini Skibidi model!

	▲	gorbot 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also introducing the amazing 6-7 pro model

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jedberg 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was at a tech conference yesterday, and I asked someone if they had tried nano banana. They looked at me like I was crazy. These names aren't helping! (But honestly I love it, easier to remember than Gemini-2.whatever.

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b33j0r 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has always been the hardest problem in computer science besides “Assume a lightweight J2EE distribution…”

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mlmonkey 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science: cache coherency, naming things and off by 1 errors...

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awillen 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly I give Google credit for realizing that they had something that people were talking about and running with it instead of just calling it gemini-image-large-with-text-pro

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echelon 11 hours ago | parent [-]

They tried calling it gemini-2.5-whatever, but social media obsessed over the name "Nano Banana", which was just its codename that got teased on Twitter for a few weeks prior to launch.

After launch, Google's public branding for the product was "Gemini" until Google just decided to lean in and fully adopt the vastly more popular "Nano Banana" label.

The public named this product, not Google. Google's internal codename went virally popular and outstaged the official name.

Branding matters for distribution. When you install yourself into the public consciousness with a name, you'd better use the name. It's free distribution. You own human wetware market share for free. You're alive in the minds of the public.

Renaming things every human has brand recognition of, eg. HBO -> Max, is stupid. It doesn't matter if the name sucks. ChatGPT as a name sucks. But everyone in the world knows it.

This will forever be Nano Banana unless they deprecate the product.

	▲	mupuff1234 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I doubt majority of the public knows what "nano banana" or even "Gemini" means, they probably just call it "Google AI". And I'm willing to bet eventually Google will rename Gemini to be something like Google AI or roll it back into Google assistant.