Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated

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)

> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit

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

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.

This is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"

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.

- Prayer: Press enter and hope for the best.

- Parable: Responds to the question that you didn't know you needed to ask.

- Bible: Dozens of parable instances reporting in different epochs. Tokens are redeemed on expiry.

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.

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

'we have simon willison at home'

(great article!)

I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI

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.

Fan Fiction: Open weight distillations / riffs

Would have been nicer if they stayed in the literary sphere rather than films. But funny nonetheless lol.

Claude Obituary - when you’re ready to sever ties and move on

Claude Epitaph

Don't forget the open weight model they could release: Free Verse.

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

I asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested:

    - Epic
    - Tale
    - Saga
    - Chronicle
    - Legend
    - Logos

Canto? Epic? Libretto? Axiom?

They should have launched with Beowulf.

Don't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).

- Claude Potato

- Claude Skynet

- Claude HAL 9000

- Claude Auto

- Google Claude

- Claude Whatchamacallit

Claude Word: a model that returns a single word.

Corpus seems to fit and add is missing from the list

That might be the theme. Or we could be looking at something like:

-- Mythos

-- Fable

-- Fantasy

-- Delusion

-- Pareidolia

-- Psychosis

The last one will be "Killer Joke".

Requiem

Allegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix

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.

Meanwhile Apple be like:

Siri AI !

- Magnum Opus

- Fairytale

- Pulp Fiction

Socrates?