Comment by rootnod3

2 months ago

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.