Google CEO Sundar Pichai has once again drawn attention to a long-standing faux pas from 2017 — the infamous cheeseburger emoji that placed the cheese under the patty.
This week, he highlighted the fix using the company’s latest AI tools, showing how far Google’s image and spatial reasoning technology has come.
Google Burger Emoji Fix: From Emoji Gaffe to AI Showcase
Back in October 2017, users noticed Google’s burger emoji stacked cheese under the meat, triggering an online debate. Pichai responded jokingly, saying the company would “drop everything” to correct it.
This week’s post on X (formerly Twitter) by Pichai featured a perfectly rendered burger image, created using Google’s new AI model. He captioned it “iykyk” (“if you know, you know”) referencing the viral incident.
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What This Fix Really Means
The burger emoji update may seem trivial, but it signals something deeper: the arrival of more advanced image-generation and spatial awareness capabilities at Google.
Here are the key points:
- The new image was produced by Google’s generative AI model “Gemini 3” and its tool “Nano Banana Pro”, showing strong spatial reasoning.
- Pichai’s post illustrates that Google’s AI now understands the correct “stack” of objects, like where the cheese goes in a burger — a small example of a larger technical leap.
- This move comes at a time when Google is pushing hard into the AI race, competing with OpenAI, Microsoft and others.
The burger fix has become a symbol of Google’s comeback, showing that were are capable of both humility and innovation.
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