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taytusyesterday at 5:39 PM4 repliesview on HN

You don’t know what sol means? You don’t understand the difference in sizes between Terra and sol? I’m genuinely asking.


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Someone1234yesterday at 5:47 PM

That isn't what "genuinely asking" looks like, you're criticizing using "questions" as cover. It isn't subtle, nor is it constructive.

I agree with them, Sol, Terra, and Luna are confusing names. They mean the same thing as GPT-5.6-Max, GPT-5.6-Plus, and GPT-5.6-Fast but require base knowledge for an analogy.

It feels like it was adding by the marketing department.

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bloody-crowyesterday at 8:42 PM

I do know what Sol/Terra/Luna mean, but was also confused for a second on the hierarchy. After doing a bit or research it dawned on me that they are arranged in the order of the sizes of the celestial objects but it somehow wasn't immediately obvious to me from the start.

Anthropic ships models with a helpful one-liner tag that makes the model hierarchy obvious. I think it wouldn't hurt if OpenAI did the same.

adamrezichyesterday at 5:43 PM

Sure—so, is Sol 109.2x better than Terra? Or 1.304x10^6 better?

Jcampuzano2yesterday at 5:40 PM

Did you not read the second sentence? Obviously I know what sol is given my first language being Spanish. I'm just speaking in a general sense that it can be confusing for others.

I already know plenty who had no clue what the difference between Terra and Luna would be.

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