Google’s Nano Banana: India Saves Google From Itself (Again)
Right, so apparently Google had this half-baked idea – a tiny AI assistant called “Nano Banana” meant to run on ridiculously low-end phones. Shockingly, it was… not great. Like, barely functional outside of the lab. Who could have predicted that?
But *India* swooped in and fixed it. Not Google’s teams of overpaid engineers, oh no. Indian developers, specifically those working with local languages and understanding how actual people use phones (imagine that!), took this pathetic little banana and made it useful. They focused on things like offline functionality, support for a gazillion different dialects, and actually solving problems *people have* instead of chasing some techbro fantasy.
Now Nano Banana is apparently booming in India, doing stuff like helping farmers with crop prices and providing information to people who can barely afford a feature phone. Google’s patting themselves on the back, naturally, claiming “global impact” but it’s all thanks to Indian ingenuity. They probably would have scrapped the whole thing if not for this.
The article also mentions some creative uses like local storytelling and educational tools. Fine. Whatever. It’s still a banana-shaped AI running on phones that cost less than your lunch, but at least it’s *doing* something now. Don’t expect any miracles though.
Look, I once had to debug a system where someone decided to use a Commodore 64 as a critical server component. A *Commodore 64*. This Nano Banana thing feels… familiar. People trying to make garbage work because they have no other choice. It’s depressing, frankly. And Google gets all the credit? Don’t even get me started.
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