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points by ReptileMan 1 day ago | 0 comments

Argon - first version, Bismuth - internal, Carbon - second version for the public if I had to make a wild guess.

Other sources say that what was publicly released as Argon was already the second version named Barium internally. So there was a separate internal Argon and public Argon was Barium. Not confusing at all for them! https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1x292ly/a_new_che...

[–] jnwatson 1 day ago

The internal joke was that we're even scaling the off-by-one errors; Gemini 4 was not the fourth major model version.

[–] ReptileMan 1 day ago

Still better than Anthropic. If I create someday doomsday device, its turn off code will be to sort Anthropic models by strength given only their names, without access to the internet.

[–] lucumo 1 day ago

Before Mythos/Fable they were simply size-ordered. A Haiku is a small poem of 3 lines, a Sonnet has 14 lines and an Opus is a larger work.

I suppose a Fable is seen as larger. But some of them can be quite short, and not generally considered poetry.

[–] post-it 1 day ago

I found Anthropic to be pretty intuitive.

[–] sheepscreek 1 day ago

Clearly, Google has already fired their marketing department and Gemini sucks at this job.

Maybe it thought the names are clear and intuitive (for an LLM perhaps).

[–] brainwad 1 day ago

Alphabetically sorting chemical elements sounds like something _only_ a marketing department could think of.

[–] incognito124 1 day ago

Literally. If only elements came already presorted by some kind of a key already...

[–] sheepscreek 1 day ago

Hmm..they did come up with Bard.

[–] A_D_E_P_T 1 day ago

This naming strategy is bizarre.

There are no good elements for D; Dysprosium is the only one, and it's a mouthful. There are no good elements for E; Europium is the only one and would seem political. Is Fluorine their next release? (And then Gallium or Gadolinium?)

After Carbon, they should just update to Gemini 4.1 or 4.5 or whatever, and drop the random unrelated elements.

[–] ddoeth 1 day ago

I don't think calling a model europium will be seen as political if it is a clear line of alphabetical animals, but who knows what the fine president can cook up

[–] Tossrock 1 day ago

Deuterium?

[–] spider-mario 20 hours ago

Dioxide?

[–] dymk 1 day ago

Ah, so the next will be Dubnium

[–] alfiopuglisi 1 day ago

Dilithium