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Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated

https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-09-anthropics-model-naming-extrapolated
165•sammycdubs•2h ago

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bitpush•1h ago
This is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"
xyzsparetimexyz•1h ago
Canto? Epic? Libretto? Axiom?
backspin400•1h ago
Libretto: a full story but then another model sets it to music
qsort•1h ago
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.

Computer0•56m ago
Why do you think that?
eli•22m ago
The word mythos means roughly the same as "myth" and dates to 1753.
winstonp•1h ago
I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI
dinkleberg•43m ago
It would be hard to do worse than OpenAI in naming
Robin_Message•1h ago
> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit

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

quotemstr•27m ago
Also a reference to astronomer telescope naming: https://xkcd.com/1294/
ZeroCool2u•9m ago
One can only hope The Culture is the trajectory the future bends to.
arjie•1h ago
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.

Azantys•42m ago
Galaxy AI 3.8-Flash-Plus Max (xhigh)
coder543•1h ago
Don't forget the open weight model they could release: Free Verse.
kuboble•1h ago
Corpus seems to fit and add is missing from the list
OisinMoran•1h ago
Fan Fiction: Open weight distillations / riffs
cyclopeanutopia•58m ago
The last one will be "Killer Joke".
mekdoonggi•54m ago
"The Aristocrats"
bensyverson•57m ago
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)

bhu8•56m ago
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

mekdoonggi•56m ago
Claude Word: a model that returns a single word.
kccqzy•48m ago
Claude Littera: a model so good at summarizing that it summarizes everything to a letter.

(Unfortunately just like English a letter can also mean a correspondence.)

whyho•38m ago
Requiem
exabrial•27m ago
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.
wahnfrieden•2m ago
Users are enemies. Customers are thieves
dude250711•2m ago
People believing myths and fables are factual perhaps can expect to be a little bit disappointed.
hcrisp•26m ago
I asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested:

    - Epic
    - Tale
    - Saga
    - Chronicle
    - Legend
    - Logos
petalmind•24m ago
Claude Epitaph
renyicircle•23m ago
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.
hawkjo•21m ago
Allegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix
rayng•21m ago
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

Tepix•20m ago
They should have launched with Beowulf.
joseph3553•20m ago
Socrates?
lynguist•19m ago
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.

jansan•17m ago
- Magnum Opus

- Fairytale

- Pulp Fiction

hmokiguess•16m ago
Meanwhile Apple be like:

Siri AI !

winocm•12m ago
Don't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).
collinmcnulty•2m ago
Before Fable came out, a friend and I came up with this list of increasing poem sizes: Bar - Haiku - Verse - Sonnet - Crown - Anthology - Epic - Opus - Saga - Ouevre - Canon - Mythos

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