Nano Banana Saves Google: Gemini Dethrones Chatgpt as Google $ 3 trillion hits

The Gemini app from Google was at the top of the Apple App Store and chatgpt on 15 September for the first time since the Chatbot of OpenAi was launched almost three years ago. The catalyst was not a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence or a new reasoning mode – finally Gemini was released in March – it seems to be the hunger of the public for making memes and editing images.

“Image editing is one of the most popular use cases for Nano Banana,” the company tweeted last week. Although Google did not offer specific reasons for its coming increase in popularity, it is safe to assume that Nano Banana gave the company a huge bump in view of the timing.

A specific prompt for the new image editing model from Google has users convert photos into 3D-collected style portraits complete with plastic packaging and display basses. That was enough to let the Gemini have his “Wen Moon” moment.

Within two weeks after Viral go to the beginning of September, Gemini #1 hit both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store worldwide. The app added 23 million users of the first time and users generated more than half a billion images in days, according to Google’s VP Josh Woodward.

Google Trends data show that global searches for Gemini Chatgpt on September 12 – the first time that happened since the Chatgpt debut in November 2022.

According to AppMagic, before Nano Banana, Gemini pulled around 13 million monthly downloads compared to the 64 million from Chatgpt. Chatgpt ordered 60% of the AI-related web traffic with nearly 6 billion monthly visits, almost 10 times the figures from Gemini, even though they were integrated into Android devices and Google services used by 2 billion people.

The Golf helped the market capitalization of Alphabet after $ 3 trillion to push, with shares that climb 4% to around $ 252. That places the parent company of Google in noisy air next to Nvidia ($ 4.3 trillion), Microsoft ($ 3.8 trillion) and Apple ($ 3.5 bullet).

The shares of Alphabet have risen almost 30% to date, which exceeded the profit of 15% of the Nasdaq. The Mijlpaal of September came after a favorable antitrust pronunciation that avoided the ground from Google to repel Chrome or Android. But the Nano -Bananan phenomenon has contributed directly to the enthusiasm of investors. Analysts project the function can help Google to increase its income through new Gemini subscriptions.

“If Gemini can stay at the top of the App Store Charts, we believe that more investors will start to consider Gemini as a strong nuclear offer with incremental use cases that supplement the core core experience (in contrast to cannibalization),” wrote Keybanc capital analyst Justin Patterin Patterson.

OpenAi learned this lesson months ago. The “ghiblify” function that has changed photos in Studio-Ghibli-style Animations Digt more than 1 million people to register for Chatgpt in one hour. The function became so viral that OpenAI had to implement speed limits after users had generated millions of whimsical portraits, even recruiting controversial moments such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the Ghibli style.

Xai discovered the same dynamics with grok, although Elon Musk’s company followed a different approach. When grok users discovered that they could generate an anime style “Waifus” without the content restrictions imposed by other AIs, Steg Downloads 300% in Asian markets. Musk himself placed several generated images on X, in addition to a “spicy mode” with which users can generate NSFW videos using Grok’s AI

Chatgpt still dominates rough statistics – 700 million weekly active users and more than 1 billion daily questions in the last quarter, but the sudden rise of Gemini shows how quickly the landscape can shift when an AI function is set on social media.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis tweeted: “Congratulations on the @geminiaapp team … This is just the beginning.”

Let’s hope there will be more memes.