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I know a few of my comments are related to this, but these new names are horrible. Why introduce ANOTHER layer of confusion and drop the mini, nano suffixes tha
by elAhmo 3mo ago
I know a few of my comments are related to this, but these new names are horrible. Why introduce ANOTHER layer of confusion and drop the mini, nano suffixes that people got used to?
How does this go through so many layers of management at a trillion dollar company without who has a say raising this? I simply can't believe how stupid the naming scheme from OpenAI was and continues to be even after they acknowledged it earlier.
- manojlds 3mo agoBecause they want a Haiku, Sonnet, Opus equivalent I guess?
- trentor 3mo agoThe funny thing is they had the decision to go with some less or more pretentious...
- solids 3mo agoExactly, and I think the tipping point was how many times “Fable” was mentioned the last weeks
- re-thc 3mo agoThen they should have just called it Fairytale
- adammarples 3mo agoConfabulation
- gck1 3mo agoAnd the names they came up with mirror the names OAI models come up with when I try to have them suggest codenames for projects. Just lacking any sort of imagination or coherence.
- rkagerer 3mo agoso many layers of management Sounds like the source of your problem, right there.
- AussieWog93 3mo agoHonestly, "mini" and "nano" to me just seem like really awful names from a marketing perspective - they might as well call it "lobotomized crap version of GPT" and "even more lobotomized crap version of GPT". Whereas Sol/Luna/Terra reads more like "GPT for hard/medium/basic problems".
- bananaflag 3mo agoSee, you are already confused: it's Sol/Terra/Luna, descending order by diameter. One is tempted to put the Sun and the Moon before the Earth, as those are "celestial".
- rob74 3mo agoSo, Terra should work for most "down-to-earth" problems, Luna is for light-weight stuff (because less gravity?), and if you really want to burn tokens like there's no tomorrow, you go for the fusion furnace at the center of our solar system?
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- drybjed 3mo agoIt's the same issue with American and ISO date formats again. I mean, it's 8/7/2026 today, what's the problem?
- atraac 3mo agoI disagree. I needed a small text to json model that would parse basic info into a json, nothing else. I instantly knew to start with nano and if not good enough, use mini. This was obvious to me, just looking at the name. Now you have to actually know what those names mean. And I can guarantee you they'll add 5 more to create more hype, or make new names in whatever the next-gen-world-breaking-dangerous-model will be.
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- mnicky 3mo agoMy theory is that they don't have Fable-class intelligence so they needed different hype vehicle :) This rename helps build excitement a bit more than just releasing ordinary GPT-5.6 increment.
- bayindirh 3mo agoI think OpenAI can also use the naming playbooks of current Intel and AMD of 2000s. Possibilities are endless: - OpenAI GPT 5.6 F5+ - OpenAI GPT5-6000FT - OpenAI GPT5-6505FS - OpenAI GPT5-6F05UL Sounds nice, looks cool. Why not?
- spider-mario 3mo agoOr NVIDIA. OpenAI GptForce 5600 XT
- bayindirh 3mo agoYou can go far beyond that: OpenAI GptForce FX6800TI Founders Edition, for example.
- re-thc 3mo ago> OpenAI can also use the naming playbooks of current Intel Past Intel had way better naming. It'd just be OpenAI GPT 5.6++++++++++++++
- satvikpendem 3mo agoBecause people weren't using the mini and nano models. Like someone else said those are awful marketing names.
- bpavuk 3mo agowell I'm using mini models and GPT-5.4-mini is better than Gemini 3.1 Pro (considerably faster in exchange for less broad world knowledge) and 3.5 Flash (that one's trash by itself)
- satvikpendem 3mo agoYou are, sure, but I wonder how many weren't due to the name. In many people's minds, it's like, why even bother with a non frontier model? Especially if they're not paying for it, via their employers' subscriptions. This new OpenAI naming changes it though, they equate Sol to Fable so people will use Terra instead which has roughly 5.5 performance, thereby saving inference for OpenAI.
- jug 3mo agoYet, in a month we'll be fine. We were fine with Anthropic naming models by music. I'm sure celestial bodies will be OK too. Larger = better. It's simple. As for the why? Marketing, making products feel "fresh", exciting, new, something alluring that we didn't have before. So, much like since industrialization. What surprises me is not this, but that OpenAI changed things up without syncing with a GPT 6.
- fwn 3mo agoI mostly used GPT-Venti for the complex part, but the documentation was done by either GPT-Grande or GPT-Tall. On a more serious note, I can vividly imagine how difficult it is to agree on a set of words that could plausibly suggest a relational meaning while remaining non-diminutive in every individual model name. Adding to the complexity, it is going to be used globally, and the main competitor already has an arguably successful, fabulous naming scheme. It sounds like a PR minefield.
- leokennis 3mo ago(At least in Europe) Toyota used to name their models "Sol", "Luna" and "Terra" as well. Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. It sounded nicer than something like "Luxury" and "Basic".
- ayewo 3mo ago> Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. That’s interesting. My understanding is that: Sol = Sun Terra = Earth Luna = Moon So it’s a bit surprising that in Toyota’s nomenclature, Terra is the basic trim instead of Luna.
- leokennis 3mo agoI always understood it as "the further from the (dirty/basic) Earth, the more luxurious".
- thankyoufriend 3mo agoIf you ever find out, let me know. My department at work has been renamed so many times, I don't even know our current name.
- KoolKat23 3mo agoNano and mini, which is smaller? This is a bit more clear imo. It also helps for expectations, bigger isn't necessarily better for all use cases. (Well given the limited amount of things we can deduce from a name)
- dragonwriter 3mo ago> Nano and mini, which is smaller? mini > micro (see, e.g., -skirts, -computers) micro > nano (see, SI) so, mini > nano.
- jeffybefffy519 3mo agoMarketing... that is all