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Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
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- lizardking 4mo agoThe Chinese models are well written fan fic
- dr_kiszonka 4mo agoQwen is a really good name.
- drbacon 4mo agoSomehow, there's a LOTR joke to make about Lore consuming more Tolkiens.
- bitpush 4mo agoThis is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"
- xyzsparetimexyz 4mo agoCanto? Epic? Libretto? Axiom?
- backspin400 4mo agoLibretto: a full story but then another model sets it to music
- qsort 4mo agoIt's almost certainly a reference to Lovecraft actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos Hopefully future models will be kind enough not to behave like malevolent gods.
- winstonp 4mo agoI do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI
- dinkleberg 4mo agoIt would be hard to do worse than OpenAI in naming
- fendy3002 4mo agoThankfully Microsoft doesn't let it's windows or xbox team do the naming of their latest ai model, otherwise MAI flash 360 series X will take the cake
- ValentineC 4mo agoCopilot Copilot.
- SCLeo 4mo agoI actually laughed out loud in a restaurant.
- yencabulator 4mo agoMicrosoft Copilot Subsystem For Copilot.
- andai 4mo agoI miss the days when the dropdown menu (in their consumer product with a billion users) asked me if I wanted to use o3, 4o, 4o-mini, o4-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, or gpt-4.5 (Research Preview).
- Robin_Message 4mo ago> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture
- quotemstr 4mo agoAlso a reference to astronomer telescope naming: https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/
- ZeroCool2u 4mo agoOne can only hope The Culture is the trajectory the future bends to.
- Georgelemental 4mo agoNo thank you
- philistine 4mo agoUghh. Another Iridian sympathizer.
- 9NRtKyP4 4mo agohttps://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/ https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-c...
- ffsm8 4mo agoI sometimes wonder what goes through designers heads. The article is surely good. But it's long form and I need to pay attention to it in order to appreciate it. Yet they decided to add an obnoxious banner to the view which cannot be hidden and keeps distracting me every few sentences by being significantly more attention grabbing then the article. So I stopped reading. I would've likely read to the end and consequently been more willing to spend money, but I never got to that point. Yes I have ADHD, and I'm sure other people that don't have it don't have such an issue. But to me the design for that element is in direct contrast to the content being served. If the article was short form it'd be able to ignore it, but with it being long form, I cannot and thus my experience was actually negative.
- arjie 4mo agoThe Dario Legendarium is definitely going to be a fun piece of work for historians to interrogate as to the origin of this age. The relative personalities of the orgs involved show somewhat in their naming: {o1,4o,3.5,5.5} vs. {Haiku,Sonnet,Opus} vs. {3.1, 3.5-pro, 3.5-flash, 3.5-flash-lite} vs. {3.7, 3.7-plus, 3.7-max} It's a pity that Samsung isn't in the mix. I would have liked to have used a model named Samsung Galaxy S10+ 5G Lite.
- Azantys 4mo agoGalaxy AI 3.8-Flash-Plus Max (xhigh)
- scrlk 4mo agoAnd Sony as well - AI-LLM1000XM5 Mark II.
- Insanity 4mo agoTo nitpick, the “M” in XM is “mark”, no?
- andai 4mo agoSamsung Galaxy Brain S26
- neonstatic 4mo agoStrange that we don't see Chinese models named "Good Fortune 27b" or "Much Success MoE"
- arjie 4mo agoSurely it would be Tàiyī (Supreme One) or Tiānjī (Celestial Mechanism) in keeping with Tiāngōng (Celestial Palace) for their space station. Though naming a small model Tàiyī would sound stupid haha! Xiǎoyī!
- neonstatic 4mo agoCelestial Mechanism sounds dope!
- coder543 4mo agoDon't forget the open weight model they could release: Free Verse.
- kuboble 4mo agoCorpus seems to fit and add is missing from the list
- andai 4mo agoClaude Common Crawl
- OisinMoran 4mo agoFan Fiction: Open weight distillations / riffs
- cyclopeanutopia 4mo agoThe last one will be "Killer Joke".
- mekdoonggi 4mo ago"The Aristocrats"
- bensyverson 4mo agoOther candidates: - Serial (produces an incredibly exciting response which ends in a cliffhanger that withholds the answer) - Prequel (instead of responding, it provides the full backstory leading up to your question) - Yarn (maximizes output tokens by taking a long winding route to your answer) - Head Canon (answers using its own entertainingly weird theories about the input) - Overstory (your answer is interwoven with the answers from eight other users into a larger and deeply intertwined meta-answer) - Oeuvre (for every question, it produces a diverse but cohesive body of work across a variety of mediums, each one a heartbreaking masterpiece in its own right)
- bhu8 4mo agoI like how the original triplet's initials represent their behavior well: - Opus is OP, like OverPowered - Sonnet is SO, like your significant other (this was more meaningful in Sonnet 3.7 days) - Haiku is HA, like the reaction to a bad joke The latest model, naturally, needed three letters: FAB. I'm now looking forward to ABS and LO
- andai 4mo agoLo! I show you the Overclaude!
- mekdoonggi 4mo agoClaude Word: a model that returns a single word.
- kccqzy 4mo agoClaude Littera: a model so good at summarizing that it summarizes everything to a letter. (Unfortunately just like English a letter can also mean a correspondence.)
- sebastiennight 4mo agoWell it's going to be a long letter anyway, because we don't have enough tokens to make it a short one. So probably a w, I guess?
- whyho 4mo agoRequiem
- exabrial 4mo agoAnthropic intentionally degrading responses shows you they're also focusing on the wrong things. Rather than producing the best model possible, they're nerfing their models' capabilities.
- wahnfrieden 4mo agoUsers are enemies. Customers are thieves
- noncoml 4mo agoAt the moment codex/gpt5.5 runs cycles around claude/opus. Fable is stupidly expansive, and Mythos is just a myth. I don't find any reason to switch back to Anthropic, and they seem to be find with it...
- dude250711 4mo agoPeople believing myths and fables are factual perhaps can expect to be a little bit disappointed.
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- 1attice 4mo agoWas thinking similarly. "Fable" is not the name I would have chosen for a product that has to argue for the fact of its own economic viability but it is the correct mood. Perhaps Anthropic is trolling Zitron.
- sebastiennight 4mo ago20 years from now we will get Claude Odyssey, and we'll have gone full circle.
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- hcrisp 4mo agoI asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested: - Epic - Tale - Saga - Chronicle - Legend - Logos
- petalmind 4mo agoClaude Epitaph
- renyicircle 4mo agoTractatus - highly aware of its limitations and refuses to speak about too many topics. Really likes numbering statements. Unusable due to a context window bug which is patched after considerable delay.
- hawkjo 4mo agoAllegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix
- rayng 4mo agoI saw a comment on HN that they (Sonnet and Haiku) were originally named from a nearby coffeeshop. https://postscript.co/pages/shop-coffee-beans https://postscript.co/pages/shop-coffee-beans
- Tepix 4mo agoThey should have launched with Beowulf.
- joseph3553 4mo agoSocrates?
- lynguist 4mo agoThank you for the laughter! (I laughed out loud) This is a well executed joke, from the design to the shortness to the being on point to the abrupt punchlines when one looks at the lower ones and it also vibes well with what we all were thinking anyway, and the unexpected seriousness of the title.
- jansan 4mo ago- Magnum Opus - Fairytale - Pulp Fiction
- hmokiguess 4mo agoMeanwhile Apple be like: Siri AI !
- kridsdale1 4mo agoThey are doing their best.
- winocm 4mo agoDon't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).
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- t0mpr1c3 4mo ago- Prayer: Press enter and hope for the best. - Parable: Responds to the question that you didn't know you needed to ask. - Bible: Dozens of parable instances reporting in different epochs. Tokens are redeemed on expiry.
- drob518 4mo agoClaude Obituary - when you’re ready to sever ties and move on
- sebastiennight 4mo agoIf you subscribe to the orthogonality and instrumental convergence theses, Obituary is a fitting model name for whenever AGI is achieved
- pseidemann 4mo agoLet's hope for Claude yAGnI.
- hmokiguess 4mo ago- Claude Potato - Claude Skynet - Claude HAL 9000 - Claude Auto - Google Claude - Claude Whatchamacallit
- pseidemann 4mo ago- Claude Cloud - Claude Copilot - Claude Vibe Code
- Insanity 4mo agoWould have been nicer if they stayed in the literary sphere rather than films. But funny nonetheless lol.
- theahura 4mo ago'we have simon willison at home' (great article!)
- sammycdubs 4mo ago"the other sw"
- MarkusQ 4mo agoThat might be the theme. Or we could be looking at something like: -- Mythos -- Fable -- Fantasy -- Delusion -- Pareidolia -- Psychosis
- mchusma 4mo agoI like "Proverb" as smaller than Haiku too, Aphorism is also good. But seriously I want Anthropic to up its small model game. Haiku is not competitive, Deepseek v4 flash outperforms my uses for about $0.10 / $0.20. Whereas Haiku 4.5 is $1/$5. IMO Anthropic should just play the game at all the price tiers because it otherwise forces people to go elsewhere. I would probably pay for a "Proverb"/"Aphorism" class model that was worse than Deepseek at the same price just to stay in the ecosystem, if given the option. (Note: I also see Google seem to make the same mistake, they actually do have competitive models in Gemma family but they don't make them available via the API. So there may be some reason for this.)
- TimTheTinker 4mo agoWhat would you use Haiku for?
- jaredsohn 4mo agoModels like Haiku are great if you just want to apply JSON structure to some free text.
- saltyoldman 4mo agoFor some reason I actually thought it was designed specifically to write Haikus!
- tuatoru 4mo ago"Comeback" or "quip" for a low-latency sub-Haiku model.
- LoganDark 4mo ago> Fable (xhigh) - Bankruptcy speedrun PREACH
- kelvinjps10 4mo agoIdk why I thought it was Simon Willianson blog, the names are kinda similar
- lubujackson 4mo ago> Fable: Mythos, until the question matters Vicious, but true. SWE at my company immediately tried "check my codebase for vulnerabilities" and was immediately downgraded to Opus.
- sometimelurker 4mo agoid love it if their last model, like some sorta far-ASI, in context RSI monster, be called `claude fin`
- noncoml 4mo agoBased on their actions, not their words, my reading is that they just don't have the compute capacity to rollout Mythos or Fable.
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- orbital-decay 4mo agoFunny how they keep naming their models after literary concepts after abandoning creative writing completely.
- oezi 4mo agoTerms of Service as the third largest gave a good chuckle. Right after Chinematic Universe (Director's Cut)
- linzhangrun 4mo agoSemantic inflation.
- fzxu22 4mo agoCan't wait to use Claude Cinematic Universe!
- pmlnr 4mo agoClaude Eulogy - the dreadful, dreary pondering that inescapably descends on all under heaven.
- llelouch 4mo agoRequiem would be pretty cool for ASI.