“Naina Raisinghani, known inside Google for working late into the night, needed a name for the new tool to complete the upload. It was 2:30 a.m., though, and nobody was around. So she just made one up, a mashup of two nicknames friends had given her: Nano Banana.”
– Katherine Blunt
The Wall Street Journal looks behind the curtain on Google’s resurgence in the AI space. The piece traces key moments from the comapany’s early lead in basic AU research through the advent of OpenAI’s rival model ChatGPT, to today and, quoting CEO Sundar Pichai, “launching at the scale of Google.”
How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | January 6, 2026 | by Katherine Blunt