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When it has appeared, people have been remarking on just how good it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s just one problem: we don’t know for certain who nano-banana belongs to.<\/p>\n Enthusiasts have been trying to sleuth its maker and, so far, the most popular answer is Google, partly because the company started teasing something image-related<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n Over the past week, posts have been popping up on Reddit and X from users who have been impressed<\/a> by the model’s ability to generate images and edit them carefully when prompted.<\/p>\n Business Insider managed to get nano-banana to appear on LMArena, and we found it to be pretty great at bringing our prompts to life, <\/a>even if it still struggled with spelling the odd word correctly.<\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Google hasn’t yet laid claim to the model \u2014 at least not directly. A Google spokesperson did not respond to Business a request for comment from Business Insider on it. On Tuesday, Logan Kilpatrick<\/a>, Google’s head of product for AI Studio, posted a banana emoji on X<\/a>. Naina Raisinghani, a Google DeepMind product manager, also posted a picture<\/a> similar to Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s banana-taped-to-wall piece from 2019.<\/p>\n The use of the word “nano” could suggest this is a model capable of running locally on a device (Google has in the past<\/a> referred to its smaller models as “nano”). Coincidentally, Google is holding a big event for its new devices on Wednesday \u2014 will Jimmy Fallon reveal all?<\/a><\/p>\n Have something to share? Contact this reporter via email at hlangley@businessinsider.com<\/a> or Signal at 628-228-1836. 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