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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by medler on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:19PM (#50471705)
It is no more confusing than the naming schemes used by OpenAI and Anthropic
Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by jug on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:26PM (#50471841)
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.

Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by techmunky on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:39PM (#50472039)
OpenAI - Celestial body size.

Anthropic - Literary scale.

Google - random elements with no clear relation to model value/capacity.

Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by medler on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:38PM (#50473000)
A fable is bigger than an opus? An astra is bigger than a sol, which is also a star?