Comment by WarmWash
1 day ago
Flash-lite haiku luna
Flash sonnet tera
Pro Opus Sol
Argon Fable Astra
These are the (approximately) equivalent model classes between the labs
Experimental means not production, so liable to change in the near future if you decide to build on it.
Omni is a video editing model, and flash implies it's a lighter weight one than what they have/could have. The other labs don't have competing models here.
What's Carbon then? I haven't been paying much attention to Google but their naming has been confusing me.
Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra was a bit pretentious but at least the sizing makes sense. (I imagined the meeting... "Ok guys, we're getting mogged on naming... what's more epic than a Myth?" -"The SUN!")
Anthropic makes sense with the literary "scale" naming, mostly.
Is a Carbon bigger than an Argon though? Maybe it has to do with the atomic number?
Carbon is the next iteration (via RL training) of the Argon sized model.
Wait are you trolling? Because I thought the answer was that Carbon is their successor to C++.
A B (not released) C
Carbon is to Argon as Mythos is to Fable.
Carbon is to Aragon what Fable is to Mythos.
I thought carbon was smarter?
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Argon is not same tier as Astra and Fable. the upcoming, similarly unavailable Carbon maybe is.
This would be by (suspected) parameter size, not benchmarked ability.
It's possible Argon/Carbon are pro sized, but given the internal rumblings and that it is based on a fresh pretrain, it makes most sense for it to be a "big" model.
Google did at one point have an "Ultra" sized model, but nothing more came of it after 1.5 Ultra.
Argon is totally in those tiers in my experience. And you actually get to use it for a few days before you run out of tokens...