Google’s Gemini app hit the top of the Apple App Store on September 15, dethroning ChatGPT for the first time since OpenAI’s chatbot launched nearly three years ago. The catalyst wasn’t a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence or some new reasoning mode—after all, Gemini 2.5 was released in March—it seems to be the public’s thirst for making memes and editing images.

“Image editing is one of the most popular use cases for Nano Banana,” the company tweeted last week. While Google didn’t provide any specific reasons for its come-from-behind surge in popularity, given the timing, it’s safe to assume that Nano Banana gave the company a huge bump.

One specific prompt for Google’s new image editing model let users transform photos into 3D collectible-style portraits complete with plastic packaging and display bases. That was enough to make the Gemini have it

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz