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points by codessta 1 day ago | 0 comments

Don't know about the leopard and model x, but at least in the case of OpenAI luna > Terra > Sol > Astra is a pretty obvious size progression.

But I come from a latin language background, so maybe I'm a bit biased there.

[–] VTimofeenko 1 day ago

At the risk of taking a geocentric position, my gut feel is Terra -> Luna -> Sol -> Astra. Sorting algorithm is distance from observer.

Size wise Astra is not categorically bigger than Sol, both in absolute terms and the observed size.

[–] Mogzol 1 day ago

Astra is latin for "stars", so basically the Galaxy (or Universe as a whole) which is categorically bigger than Sol, the sun, a single star.

The naming makes perfect sense to me, the sorting algorithm is size, both for the names and for the models themselves. Smaller things represent smaller models, and vice versa.

[–] VTimofeenko 1 day ago

> the Galaxy (or Universe as a whole) which is categorically bigger than Sol, the sun, a single star.

I would need to be a complete moron to argue with this. Humor me, however. My Latin skills end at remembering "Romani Ite Domum" and English is not my first language.

My layman reading of the names: there is one Terra, one Luna and one Sol => "Astra" is singular.

Now that I googled it, I understand that "Astra" literally means the "Stars" category. I would not have thought that they called a single star "Astrum". On the other hand, I am not sure if it means "Galaxy" in modern sense, but we're entering Roman Astronomy territory, where I am even less knowledgeable than in the language.

Sol is a star, so having a dedicated Stars category on the naming scale makes less sense. Treating Astra as Stars set without Sol, the "distance from observer" argument still kind of makes sense.

[–] warkdarrior 1 day ago

> My layman reading of the names: there is one Terra, one Luna and one Sol => "Astra" is singular.

That is incorrect. "Astra" is Latin for "stars" (plural). The singular would be "astrum".

[–] sixtyj 1 day ago

Ad Astra. To the stars.

[–] __mharrison__ 1 day ago

Yeah, this was my initial thought as well... I guess they didn't ask anyone before choosing the new naming scheme. But that isn't particularly surprising.

[–] 80fj0348i 1 day ago

It doesn't help that the moon and sun have roughly the same apparent size in the sky

[–] dwaltrip 1 day ago

Size is by far the most obvious one, at least for me.

[–] taytus 1 day ago

Why on earth (no pun intended) would anyone do this?

[–] bgandrew1 1 day ago

Good God, what has happened to people here? You literally wrote that Luna is greater than Terra, Terra is greater than Sol and so on.

[–] Rexxar 1 day ago

Maybe just read this like an arrow?

[–] sheepscreek 1 day ago

    Luna  = Moon
    Terra = Earth
    Sol   = Sun
    Astra = Galaxy

[–] melasadra 1 day ago

I didnt know this but apparently Astra is the plural of astrum (latin for star).

[–] leontalbot 1 day ago

Cannot wait for Universe and Multiverse levels.

[–] picturesnottxt 1 day ago

Or perhaps they'll release Supernova, then Singularity to market their ASI model.

[–] drob518 1 day ago

In the multiverse version, the model isn’t any smarter, but it’s evil.

[–] ben_w 1 day ago

Only if it has a goatee, which is how we know Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange were only the heroes of their own narratives, and nobody else's.

[–] Mistletoe 1 day ago

“Let there be light.”

[–] joaogui1 1 day ago

Astra means star, like the Sun

[–] sheepscreek 1 day ago

I went by their illustration of GPT 6 Astra that looks like a spiral galaxy[1].

[1]: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

[–] stavros 1 day ago

"Stars", if I'm being pedantic.

[–] MadameMinty 1 day ago

Not pedantic, the plural is the point. More than one star (Sol).