Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
by jonplackett on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:56PM
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And I thought OpenAI’s name scheme was confusing.
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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
by winstonp on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:29PM
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I don't understand which model is supposed to be better. I think Carbon is the big model and Hydrogen the Flash equivalent? Only because of a Twitter leak though. Like I have no earthly idea based on the naming.
I guess carbon has a higher atomic number than hydrogen? It's definitely the least intuitive of all the naming schemes...
Which doesn't explain Argon which is the same cost as Carbon while being worse.
I thought it was just sorted alphabetically so Argon < Carbon < Hydrogen.
Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
by JacobAsmuth on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:11PM
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Carbon = bigger, Hydrogen = smaller.
Ignore all other models.
Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
by stopsayingsorry on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:44PM
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There is nothing confusing about it if you're at least a little bit educated. If anything, they are the least confusing, Ant drops the ball at opus->fable.
For OpenAI, it's:
Luna, means "moon", smallest.
Terra, means "earth", bigger than the moon.
Sol, means "sun", the biggest object in the solar system.
Astra, plural of the word "astrum" which means "star".
Anyone who gets confused should be embarrassed.