Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated

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146 points | by sammycdubs 2 hours ago

27 comments

  • exabrial 17 minutes ago
    Anthropic intentionally degrading responses shows you they're also focusing on the wrong things. Rather than producing the best model possible, they're nerfing their models' capabilities.
  • renyicircle 13 minutes ago
    Tractatus - highly aware of its limitations and refuses to speak about too many topics. Really likes numbering statements. Unusable due to a context window bug which is patched after considerable delay.
  • bensyverson 47 minutes ago
    Other candidates:

    - Serial (produces an incredibly exciting response which ends in a cliffhanger that withholds the answer)

    - Prequel (instead of responding, it provides the full backstory leading up to your question)

    - Yarn (maximizes output tokens by taking a long winding route to your answer)

    - Head Canon (answers using its own entertainingly weird theories about the input)

    - Overstory (your answer is interwoven with the answers from eight other users into a larger and deeply intertwined meta-answer)

    - Oeuvre (for every question, it produces a diverse but cohesive body of work across a variety of mediums, each one a heartbreaking masterpiece in its own right)

  • winocm 2 minutes ago
    Don't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).
  • Robin_Message 1 hour ago
    > Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit

    I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture

  • lynguist 9 minutes ago
    Thank you for the laughter! (I laughed out loud)

    This is a well executed joke, from the design to the shortness to the being on point to the abrupt punchlines when one looks at the lower ones and it also vibes well with what we all were thinking anyway, and the unexpected seriousness of the title.

  • bitpush 1 hour ago
    This is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"
  • arjie 1 hour ago
    The Dario Legendarium is definitely going to be a fun piece of work for historians to interrogate as to the origin of this age. The relative personalities of the orgs involved show somewhat in their naming: {o1,4o,3.5,5.5} vs. {Haiku,Sonnet,Opus} vs. {3.1, 3.5-pro, 3.5-flash, 3.5-flash-lite} vs. {3.7, 3.7-plus, 3.7-max}

    It's a pity that Samsung isn't in the mix. I would have liked to have used a model named Samsung Galaxy S10+ 5G Lite.

    • Azantys 32 minutes ago
      Galaxy AI 3.8-Flash-Plus Max (xhigh)
  • rayng 11 minutes ago
    I saw a comment on HN that they (Sonnet and Haiku) were originally named from a nearby coffeeshop.

    https://postscript.co/pages/shop-coffee-beans

  • bhu8 46 minutes ago
    I like how the original triplet's initials represent their behavior well:

    - Opus is OP, like OverPowered

    - Sonnet is SO, like your significant other (this was more meaningful in Sonnet 3.7 days)

    - Haiku is HA, like the reaction to a bad joke

    The latest model, naturally, needed three letters: FAB.

    I'm now looking forward to ABS and LO

  • winstonp 1 hour ago
    I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI
    • dinkleberg 33 minutes ago
      It would be hard to do worse than OpenAI in naming
  • OisinMoran 54 minutes ago
    Fan Fiction: Open weight distillations / riffs
  • hcrisp 16 minutes ago
    I asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested:

        - Epic
        - Tale
        - Saga
        - Chronicle
        - Legend
        - Logos
  • petalmind 14 minutes ago
    Claude Epitaph
  • coder543 59 minutes ago
    Don't forget the open weight model they could release: Free Verse.
  • hawkjo 12 minutes ago
    Allegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix
  • Tepix 10 minutes ago
    They should have launched with Beowulf.
  • hmokiguess 6 minutes ago
    Meanwhile Apple be like:

    Siri AI !

  • xyzsparetimexyz 1 hour ago
    Canto? Epic? Libretto? Axiom?
    • backspin400 1 hour ago
      Libretto: a full story but then another model sets it to music
  • whyho 29 minutes ago
    Requiem
  • jansan 8 minutes ago
    - Magnum Opus

    - Fairytale

    - Pulp Fiction

  • mekdoonggi 46 minutes ago
    Claude Word: a model that returns a single word.
    • kccqzy 39 minutes ago
      Claude Littera: a model so good at summarizing that it summarizes everything to a letter.

      (Unfortunately just like English a letter can also mean a correspondence.)

  • qsort 1 hour ago
    It's almost certainly a reference to Lovecraft actually:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos

    Hopefully future models will be kind enough not to behave like malevolent gods.

    • eli 12 minutes ago
      The word mythos means roughly the same as "myth" and dates to 1753.
    • Computer0 46 minutes ago
      Why do you think that?
  • cyclopeanutopia 49 minutes ago
    The last one will be "Killer Joke".
  • kuboble 54 minutes ago
    Corpus seems to fit and add is missing from the list
  • joseph3553 10 minutes ago
    Socrates?