I think the name probably has to do with this research from Microsoft (same people involved and a lot of similarities in the way it's conceived.

HyDRA: Hybrid Dynamic Routing Architecture for Heterogeneous LLM Pools : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17106

Why? I feel it kinda implies what the approach is. Could definitely be worse, strongly prefer this over just giving the thing a random-ass name like Laguna.

I think the problem here is that we're running out of names. Which is ironic after calling everything copilot or office 365