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Re:Grok3 Launch by guax on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:12AM (#43089678)
Every year seems like we get worse at naming things in non confusing ways. I am waiting for the o1-pro-max now, pro max ultra and pro max ultra plus.
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Re:Grok3 Launch by jkestner on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:31AM (#43089893)
Then you’ll know what the naming AI was trained on.
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Re:Grok3 Launch by theptip on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:59PM (#43092940)
It’s hard because there are multiple dimensions being upgraded at different cadences. Architecture, parameter count, etc.
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Re:Grok3 Launch by polski-g on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:00PM (#43092958)
I was recently laid off from OpenAI. My job was coming up with names for their models.
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Re:Grok3 Launch by meekaaku on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:46PM (#43094132)
Is this because of USAID funding cut?
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Re:Grok3 Launch by rvnx on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:24PM (#43093235)
You are welcome to join the Bard team
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Re:Grok3 Launch by fragmede on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:00PM (#43094292)
It's not a "layoff" if you were fired for poor performance/picking bad names.
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Re:Grok3 Launch by AlchemistCamp on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:19PM (#43094513)
Microsoft already mastered this decades ago with a dozen different license tiers for Windows with unintuitive feature sets.
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Re:Grok3 Launch by tartuffe78 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @08:44AM (#43102062)
Not to mention the Xbox iterations...
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Re:Grok3 Launch by guax on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:06AM (#43137675)
Chat GPT series X, not compatible with Chat GPT X.

Frankly. Whoever decided on this last gen naming at MS needs to come forward. I would love to know what crazy unacceptable collection of circumstances allowed that to happen.

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Re:Grok3 Launch by gulfofamerica on Friday February 21, 2025 @09:44AM (#43127991)
Off by one and naming things.
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