Omni is a video model.

Which, from a naming standpoint, doesn't make any sense

It’s still bad versioning and will confuse people.

But it still starts with “Gemini”. It would be better if they called it Gemini Omni 4, 4.1 etc. Otherwise call it just Omni 1.2 and drop the Gemini prefix.

But it's not version 4 of Gemini Omni. It's version 1.2 of Gemini Omni. 4 is for normal Gemini.

It would be incredibly helpful to me if AI model names followed cars.

I'm not scratching my head about a "2025 Corolla." Windows 95 and 2000 had this built in, but then they lost it.

I'd prefer it was called Omni 2026.2 instead. It embeds a date and model and would package it as a product for on-premise or local hosting. It'd be easier to sell to the bean counters in the future: "We're running Omni 2026.2, we want to upgrade to Omni 2028."

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They used to do that and everyone hated it lol. Hackernews complained endlessly about model names that were just a size and a date.