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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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1092 points meetpateltech | 4 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.549s | source
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fariszr ◴[26 Aug 25 15:15 UTC] No.45027760[source]▶
This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Nano banana aka gemini 2.5 flash is insanely good. It made a 171 elo point jump in lmarena!

Just search nano banana on Twitter to see the crazy results. An example. https://x.com/D_studioproject/status/1958019251178267111

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1. ceroxylon ◴[26 Aug 25 15:37 UTC] No.45028040[source]▶
It seems like every combination of "nano banana" is registered as a domain with their own unique UI for image generation... are these all middle actors playing credit arbitrage using a popular model name?
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2. bonoboTP ◴[26 Aug 25 15:55 UTC] No.45028285[source]▶
I'd assume they are just fake, take your money and use a different model under the hood. Because they already existed before the public release. I doubt that their backend rolled the dice on LMArena until nano-banana popped up. And that was the only way to use it until today.
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3. ceroxylon ◴[26 Aug 25 16:07 UTC] No.45028474[source]▶
Agreed, I didn't mean to imply that they were even attempting to run the actual nano banana, even through LMarena.

There is a whole spectrum of potential sketchiness to explore with these, since I see a few "sign in with Google" buttons that remind me of phishing landing pages.

4. vunderba ◴[26 Aug 25 17:02 UTC] No.45029307[source]▶
They're almost all scams. Nano banana AI image generator sites were showing up when this model was still only available in LM Arena.