alt Hacker NewsAt least there is a simple system - the words 'Mini' and 'Max' are intended to refer to the size of the item (that one is miniature, and the other is their maximum size).
If they were called iPhone 14 Luna and iPhone 16 Sol then this is less clear.
Or on the flipside, if the models were called GPT 6.1 Mini and GPT 6.1 Max, nobody would be arguing about the names being hard to grok. The words 'mini' or 'small' are more descriptive than 'Luna' or 'Terra'.
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rpeden • today at 1:00 AM
I guess it never really occurred to me that people wouldn't immediately grok:
* Luna (Moon)
* Terra (Earth)
* Sol (Sun)
* Astra (Galaxy/Universe)
The relative sizing seems dead simple.
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The problem with that is then you would have GPT 6.1 Max with max thinking which is different from GPT 6.1 Small with max thinking.
If you look back the naming problem started around the point that OpenAI started doing reasoning models (o1, 4o) where they had to describe this fork in model behavior that let a smaller model think longer and be smarter.
You can come up with naming schemes that don't clash, but there's something to be said for this approach where the thinking level is like you describe and the model name requires you to learn that Astra is the largest model.