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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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1092 points meetpateltech | 10 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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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. koakuma-chan ◴[26 Aug 25 15:46 UTC] No.45028152[source]▶
Why is it called nano banana?
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2. Jensson ◴[26 Aug 25 15:50 UTC] No.45028218[source]▶
Engineers often have silly project names internally, then some marketing team rewrites the name for public release.
3. ZephyrBlu ◴[26 Aug 25 16:17 UTC] No.45028622[source]▶
I'm pretty sure it's because an image of a banana under a microscope generated by the model went super viral
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4. ehsankia ◴[26 Aug 25 16:44 UTC] No.45029035[source]▶
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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5. mvdtnz ◴[26 Aug 25 18:37 UTC] No.45030495[source]▶
What are "the arenas"?
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6. patates ◴[26 Aug 25 18:48 UTC] No.45030597{3}[source]▶
Blind rating battlegrounds, one is https://lmarena.ai/ (first google result)
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7. polynomial ◴[26 Aug 25 19:44 UTC] No.45031372[source]▶
Or was that just marketing?
8. kstenerud ◴[27 Aug 25 00:09 UTC] No.45033897{4}[source]▶
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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9. adventured ◴[27 Aug 25 01:14 UTC] No.45034325{5}[source]▶
People vote on the performance of AI, generating ranking boards.
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10. kstenerud ◴[27 Aug 25 05:19 UTC] No.45035715{6}[source]▶
Ah, that was the missing piece of information! Thanks!