Comment by rootnod3
2 months ago
I mean yeah, but to many non-native speakers, sonnet and opus don't immediately convey size or complexity of the models.
2 months ago
I mean yeah, but to many non-native speakers, sonnet and opus don't immediately convey size or complexity of the models.
I'm a well-educated native English speaker and "haiku", "sonnet", and "opus" don't immediately make me think of their size differences.
Exactly. Doesn't mean that OpenAI has a better or worse naming. They all don't convey anything out of the gate.
4.large, 4.medium, 4.fast, 4. reasoning etc. or something similar would probably be better.
OpenAI easily has worse naming.
Anthropic model names might not immediately conjure up their size and performance, but the name is at least internally consistent. Once you know what Anthropic call “medium”, you know what it is for all model releases.
Whereas OpenAIs naming convention, if you can even call it a “convention”, feels absolutely random to even those in the industry.
I do like your proposed naming convention though. It doesn’t sound “cool” so I can’t see any product managers approving it within the AI tech firms. But it’s definitely the best naming convention for models I’ve seen suggested for a while.
I agree it’s not perfect. But it’s just 3 terms those non-English speakers need to learn. Which is a lot easier than having to remember every OpenAI model name and how it compares to every other one.
Sure. I wasn't arguing that OpenAI's naming is better. It is way worse. But Anthropic also doesn't have a sure-fire naming scheme there either.
But it’s still better. Which is the point myself and the GP are making.
It might not be perfect, but it’s still a hell of a lot better.
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what's so wrong with: small, medium, and large?
What makes you think that I think there’s anything wrong with s/m/l?
I think non-native speakers have the ability to remember that one word equals big and another equals medium.
If anything it's a lot less confusing that the awful naming convention from OpenAI up until 5.
How about just calling it 4.large, 4.medium, etc.? Is it that difficult?
Sure, an opus is supposed to be large, but a sonnet is not restricted in size but rather a style of poem. So sonnet and opus mean nothing when compared to each other.