Google’s Gemini may have been able to put one leg up against its rivals after AI chatbot’s new "nano-banana" image tool has taken the online world by storm, flooding feeds with toy-like 3D figurines and Bollywood-style edits.
The trend has spread like wildfire from India to the U.S., spawning millions of creations, tutorials, and how-tos.
The numbers have been impressive, to say the least, with Gemini logging 12.6 million downloads so far in September, up 45 percent month-over-month following the late-August launch of nano-banana.
If the momentum holds, the ripple effects will be massive, pointing to a major shakeup in the AI pecking order.
That said, a huge new development suggests Gemini may finally be gaining ground on a familiar foe in the AI race.
Google’s AI app Gemini just ascended to the top of Apple’s App Store in the U.S. and UK, blowing past OpenAI’s ChatGPT and even Meta’s Threads. In the UK, it also edged past Temu, the fastest-growing e-commerce app from PDD Holdings.
The surge stems from Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka nano-banana, which launched back in late August.
The tool allows users to "blend multiple images into a single image, maintain character consistency for rich storytelling, make targeted transformations using natural language, and use Gemini's world knowledge to generate and edit images," according to a Google for Developers blog post.
In just a few weeks, users generated north of 500 million images with the app, attracting 23 million new users.
Gemini’s nano-banana wave mirrors earlier viral features, like ChatGPT’s Ghibli-style portraits, highlighting how shareable outputs can spark incredible mass adoption.
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