Comment by ReptileMan

5 hours ago

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

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Corence  4 hours ago

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  3 hours 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  4 hours 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  4 hours 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.

sheepscreek  4 hours 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  3 hours ago

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

A_D_E_P_T  3 hours 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  2 hours 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