Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Monday, September 15th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Nanobanana is such a hit that Gemini is suddenly ahead of chat GPT, at least if we're measuring by the app store.

Lots of interesting new data about how people are actually using AI, a new accelerator program from Open AI itself,

and is the AI boom like the dawn of the microprocessor or more like the dawn of containerization?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Do you know what the number one free app is in the app store right now? It's Google's Gemini app.

Gemini is not only now beating ChatGBT, BT, it is beating everything. Apparently a ton of you

are using the heck out of that nanobanana image model, which has been used more than 500 million times, apparently, to make images.

Look out, Adobe, but as Chad Hurley tweeted, incredible, growth without goonware or rage baiting.

Who knew? Mind-blown emoji. And as Kimmon Isthmus tweeted,anobanana has done Google a huge favor.

It is a tool suitable for mass use that is fun to use, and that contributes greatly to the spread of Gemini.

Google has done itself a huge favor with this.'"

Quoting 9 to 5, Google.

From the launch on August 26th to September 9th, the Gemini app saw 23 million new users.

Nanobanana has been used to edit over 500 million images in that period.

This image editing model is a viral hit due to how it maintains character likeness and consistency.

You can upload multiple photos to make new ones, transfer styles, and of course, conversational editing.

All free users can generate or edit up to 100

images per day while that goes to a thousand if you're a subscriber at 1999 plus per month, end

quote. And quoting Tom's guide. The feature has gone viral on social platforms because it's

accessible. You don't need expert prompting to get good results.

It's visual and fun. Turning a selfie or sketch into a figurine is instantly shareable.

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