We look at Google's silly-sounding but convincingly capable AI image generation model. Plus a host of visual stories on everything AI in Asia. Read from your browser The Prompt Welcome to The Prompt, your Monday dive into the world of AI that puts Asia front and center. From Big Tech's power players to the region's scrappy disruptors, we cover it all. Want full access to all our AI reporting? Subscribe to us here . Hello Betamax, AI went bananas last week. Literally. Almost everyone in my tech circle was having fun with Nano Banana , Google's latest image generation and editing model. It quickly rose to the top of LMArena's leaderboard , where people pit two AI models and vote for the best results without knowing which is which. Nano Banana - or technically Gemini 2.5 Flash Image - won by a long shot, with over 2.5 million votes. Our in-house designer tested it, and here's the result. Any thoughts? Of course, when there's hype, there are opportunists. O...