[markkitti]

Please come up with better names for these models. This sounds like the processor in my Mac Studio.

[chvid]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax

They named themselves after a classic ai algorithm.

[JoeDaDude]

As best I can tell from a gloss-over read, it doesn't use anything like the Minimax algorithm. Astute readers are aware that one of the first applications of Minimax was in an AI chess program designed by Claude Shannon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Shannon's_compu...

[npteljes]

The company supplies contemporary AI solutions, like LLM and video generation. The name is just a reference, like in the case of Tesla, or like how there is a kaliapparat in the American Chemical Society logo.

[thawab]

Does facebook use llamas in their model? it's a name, it doesn't have to be 100% true to its meaning.

[bjord]

it's the name of the company

[badc0ffee]

But then there's the "M1" part.

[seydor]

Your Mac is made by 'Apple' and literally named after an apple cultivar

[kridsdale1]

Is that like a pineapple that doesn’t grow on pine trees?

[quesera]

... but the cultivar is named for a person. :)

[diggan]

Also sounds like my long lost dog whose name was Max but he was tiny. Absolutely horrible name, borderline criminal I say.