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by jug 21 days ago
Yet, in a month we'll be fine. We were fine with Anthropic naming models by music. I'm sure celestial bodies will be OK too. Larger = better. It's simple. As for the why? Marketing, making products feel "fresh", exciting, new, something alluring that we didn't have before. So, much like since industrialization.

What surprises me is not this, but that OpenAI changed things up without syncing with a GPT 6.