On the Apple App Store, Gemini is currently number 1 in the list of free apps. It is followed by ChatGPT, Threads, X, Amazon Prime Video, and Google’s own search app. This is the first time that Google Gemini has hit the top spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What seems to have led to the surge in downloads for Gemini is its new image generation model. The model had been first tested on LMArena under the code name Nano Banana, and had wowed users with its abilities, especially at image editing. Google had later hinted <\/a>that it was behind the model, with top executives including Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis sharing<\/a> banana emojis on X, and had confirmed that it was behind the model. But Google’s had then doubled down its marketing efforts. It held a hackathon to get developers to build with Nano Banana. It also integrated Nano Banana within Gemini, and even created <\/a>a bot on X that generated images if tagged with a prompt. All this, along with the model’s capabilities, seems to have pushed the model into the mainstream. A Google executive had said <\/a>last week that Nano Banana had brought 10 million new users to Gemini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the last few days, a trend for the creation of AI figurines has gone viral in many parts of the world including in India. This appears to have propelled the usage of Gemini even higher — these images can be made in Gemini with a simple prompt. Not too long ago, the Ghibli trend had similarly gone viral, and had led to ChatGPT multiplying its userbase manifold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-20-1024x383.png?resize=640%2C239&ssl=1\")
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