Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen
by prodigycorp on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:14PM
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Google team: these names are an embarrassment
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Indeed. That's why when I had to name my product I named it after a cat.
It is no more confusing than the naming schemes used by OpenAI and Anthropic
OpenAI is at least arranged by size of celestial feature. Anthropic did arrange them by size of a written work. But I think Fable and Mythos made it a little weird. As for Google, no idea other than Hydrogen is small.
Having said this, I don't defend this trend at all and also think a model picker ought to be good enough with at most three tiers.
OpenAI - Celestial body size.
Anthropic - Literary scale.
Google - random elements with no clear relation to model value/capacity.