alt.hn

6/10/2026 at 6:45:20 PM

Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated

 https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-09-anthropics-model-naming-extrapolated

by sammycdubs

6/10/2026 at 7:57:36 PM

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)

by bensyverson

6/10/2026 at 7:41:13 PM

> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit

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

by Robin_Message

6/10/2026 at 10:13:23 PM

https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-c...

by 9NRtKyP4

6/11/2026 at 6:55:55 AM

Thankyou for sharing this. I've been reading the culture series over the last few months and this beautifully articulates ideas that I've not been able to.

by dtj1123

6/11/2026 at 6:40:49 AM

I sometimes wonder what goes through designers heads.

The article is surely good. But it's long form and I need to pay attention to it in order to appreciate it.

Yet they decided to add an obnoxious banner to the view which cannot be hidden and keeps distracting me every few sentences by being significantly more attention grabbing then the article.

So I stopped reading. I would've likely read to the end and consequently been more willing to spend money, but I never got to that point.

Yes I have ADHD, and I'm sure other people that don't have it don't have such an issue. But to me the design for that element is in direct contrast to the content being served. If the article was short form it'd be able to ignore it, but with it being long form, I cannot and thus my experience was actually negative.

by ffsm8

6/10/2026 at 8:46:06 PM

One can only hope The Culture is the trajectory the future bends to.

by ZeroCool2u

6/10/2026 at 9:31:37 PM

No thank you

by Georgelemental

6/11/2026 at 2:29:43 AM

Ughh. Another Iridian sympathizer.

by philistine

6/10/2026 at 8:27:55 PM

Also a reference to astronomer telescope naming: https://xkcd.com/1294/

by quotemstr

6/10/2026 at 7:15:21 PM

This is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"

by bitpush

6/10/2026 at 9:10:26 PM

Zack Snyder's Saga is also a good one

by AbuAssar

6/11/2026 at 12:58:47 AM

Is "release the Mythos" the new "Snyder cut" chant?

And also, chant is a lovely name that was skipped over. Especially for the models that won't stop sounding like a broken record.

by soganess

6/10/2026 at 7:42:55 PM

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.

by arjie

6/11/2026 at 6:17:12 AM

IBM: CICS/370 Neural Transaction Facility: A z/OS-resident Enterprise Natural Language Transaction Processing Facility Subsystem for Conversational Batch-Oriented Inference and Prompt-Managed Spool Generation

by ricudis

6/10/2026 at 8:56:26 PM

And Sony as well - AI-LLM1000XM5 Mark II.

by scrlk

6/10/2026 at 9:26:03 PM

To nitpick, the “M” in XM is “mark”, no?

by Insanity

6/10/2026 at 8:12:54 PM

Galaxy AI 3.8-Flash-Plus Max (xhigh)

by Azantys

6/11/2026 at 5:45:41 AM

Strange that we don't see Chinese models named "Good Fortune 27b" or "Much Success MoE"

by neonstatic

6/11/2026 at 5:57:16 AM

Surely it would be Tàiyī (Supreme One) or Tiānjī (Celestial Mechanism) in keeping with Tiāngōng (Celestial Palace) for their space station. Though naming a small model Tàiyī would sound stupid haha! Xiǎoyī!

by arjie

6/11/2026 at 7:09:42 AM

Celestial Mechanism sounds dope!

by neonstatic

6/10/2026 at 9:07:53 PM

Samsung Galaxy Brain S26

by andai

6/10/2026 at 8:27:49 PM

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.

by exabrial

6/10/2026 at 8:52:55 PM

Users are enemies. Customers are thieves

by wahnfrieden

6/10/2026 at 10:49:15 PM

At the moment codex/gpt5.5 runs cycles around claude/opus. Fable is stupidly expansive, and Mythos is just a myth.

I don't find any reason to switch back to Anthropic, and they seem to be find with it...

by noncoml

6/10/2026 at 8:53:05 PM

People believing myths and fables are factual perhaps can expect to be a little bit disappointed.

by dude250711

6/10/2026 at 9:11:09 PM

Was thinking similarly.

"Fable" is not the name I would have chosen for a product that has to argue for the fact of its own economic viability but it is the correct mood. Perhaps Anthropic is trolling Zitron.

by 1attice

6/10/2026 at 9:37:58 PM

20 years from now we will get Claude Odyssey, and we'll have gone full circle.

by sebastiennight

6/10/2026 at 7:41:11 PM

I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI

by winstonp

6/10/2026 at 9:11:53 PM

I miss the days when the dropdown menu (in their consumer product with a billion users) asked me if I wanted to use o3, 4o, 4o-mini, o4-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, or gpt-4.5 (Research Preview).

by andai

6/10/2026 at 8:11:48 PM

It would be hard to do worse than OpenAI in naming

by dinkleberg

6/10/2026 at 9:03:38 PM

Thankfully Microsoft doesn't let it's windows or xbox team do the naming of their latest ai model, otherwise MAI flash 360 series X will take the cake

by fendy3002

6/10/2026 at 9:31:07 PM

Copilot Copilot.

by ValentineC

6/10/2026 at 11:39:25 PM

I actually laughed out loud in a restaurant.

by SCLeo

6/11/2026 at 9:19:24 PM

Microsoft Copilot Subsystem For Copilot.

by yencabulator

6/10/2026 at 7:58:41 PM

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

by bhu8

6/10/2026 at 9:06:47 PM

Lo! I show you the Overclaude!

by andai

6/10/2026 at 8:31:41 PM

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.

by renyicircle

6/10/2026 at 8:59:00 PM

- Prayer: Press enter and hope for the best.

- Parable: Responds to the question that you didn't know you needed to ask.

- Bible: Dozens of parable instances reporting in different epochs. Tokens are redeemed on expiry.

by t0mpr1c3

6/11/2026 at 1:39:24 AM

Somehow, there's a LOTR joke to make about Lore consuming more Tolkiens.

by drbacon

6/10/2026 at 8:28:44 PM

I asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested:

    - Epic
    - Tale
    - Saga
    - Chronicle
    - Legend
    - Logos

by hcrisp

6/10/2026 at 10:48:56 PM

I like epic, essay, report, thesis, and slide deck.

by dabrez

6/10/2026 at 9:13:11 PM

Claude Palimpsest

by andai

6/10/2026 at 7:50:47 PM

Fan Fiction: Open weight distillations / riffs

by OisinMoran

6/10/2026 at 7:45:38 PM

Don't forget the open weight model they could release: Free Verse.

by coder543

6/11/2026 at 1:20:05 AM

Funny how they keep naming their models after literary concepts after abandoning creative writing completely.

by orbital-decay

6/10/2026 at 9:13:55 PM

Claude Obituary - when you’re ready to sever ties and move on

by drob518

6/10/2026 at 9:29:43 PM

If you subscribe to the orthogonality and instrumental convergence theses, Obituary is a fitting model name for whenever AGI is achieved

by sebastiennight

6/11/2026 at 12:09:34 AM

Let's hope for Claude yAGnI.

by pseidemann

6/10/2026 at 8:36:02 PM

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.

by lynguist

6/10/2026 at 9:48:58 PM

I like "Proverb" as smaller than Haiku too, Aphorism is also good. But seriously I want Anthropic to up its small model game. Haiku is not competitive, Deepseek v4 flash outperforms my uses for about $0.10 / $0.20. Whereas Haiku 4.5 is $1/$5.

IMO Anthropic should just play the game at all the price tiers because it otherwise forces people to go elsewhere. I would probably pay for a "Proverb"/"Aphorism" class model that was worse than Deepseek at the same price just to stay in the ecosystem, if given the option.

(Note: I also see Google seem to make the same mistake, they actually do have competitive models in Gemma family but they don't make them available via the API. So there may be some reason for this.)

by mchusma

6/10/2026 at 10:44:02 PM

"Comeback" or "quip" for a low-latency sub-Haiku model.

by tuatoru

6/10/2026 at 10:14:12 PM

What would you use Haiku for?

by TimTheTinker

6/10/2026 at 10:44:29 PM

Models like Haiku are great if you just want to apply JSON structure to some free text.

by jaredsohn

6/11/2026 at 9:02:21 PM

For some reason I actually thought it was designed specifically to write Haikus!

by saltyoldman

6/10/2026 at 8:31:08 PM

Claude Epitaph

by petalmind

6/10/2026 at 7:19:09 PM

Canto? Epic? Libretto? Axiom?

by xyzsparetimexyz

6/10/2026 at 7:24:47 PM

Libretto: a full story but then another model sets it to music

by backspin400

6/11/2026 at 7:26:01 AM

Claude Eulogy - the dreadful, dreary pondering that inescapably descends on all under heaven.

by pmlnr

6/10/2026 at 9:38:40 PM

'we have simon willison at home'

(great article!)

by theahura

6/10/2026 at 9:48:04 PM

"the other sw"

by sammycdubs

6/11/2026 at 1:53:00 AM

Terms of Service as the third largest gave a good chuckle.

Right after Chinematic Universe (Director's Cut)

by oezi

6/10/2026 at 10:47:57 PM

> Fable: Mythos, until the question matters

Vicious, but true. SWE at my company immediately tried "check my codebase for vulnerabilities" and was immediately downgraded to Opus.

by lubujackson

6/10/2026 at 10:59:47 PM

Based on their actions, not their words, my reading is that they just don't have the compute capacity to rollout Mythos or Fable.

by noncoml

6/10/2026 at 7:50:40 PM

Corpus seems to fit and add is missing from the list

by kuboble

6/10/2026 at 9:13:45 PM

Claude Common Crawl

by andai

6/10/2026 at 7:58:56 PM

Claude Word: a model that returns a single word.

by mekdoonggi

6/10/2026 at 8:06:16 PM

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.)

by kccqzy

6/10/2026 at 9:34:57 PM

Well it's going to be a long letter anyway, because we don't have enough tokens to make it a short one. So probably a w, I guess?

by sebastiennight

6/10/2026 at 7:56:15 PM

The last one will be "Killer Joke".

by cyclopeanutopia

6/10/2026 at 8:00:42 PM

"The Aristocrats"

by mekdoonggi

6/10/2026 at 9:25:01 PM

Would have been nicer if they stayed in the literary sphere rather than films. But funny nonetheless lol.

by Insanity

6/10/2026 at 8:34:21 PM

They should have launched with Beowulf.

by Tepix

6/10/2026 at 8:42:39 PM

Don't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).

by winocm

6/10/2026 at 9:58:53 PM

> Fable (xhigh) - Bankruptcy speedrun

PREACH

by LoganDark

6/10/2026 at 8:16:16 PM

Requiem

by whyho

6/10/2026 at 7:28:41 PM

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.

by qsort

6/10/2026 at 8:32:56 PM

The word mythos means roughly the same as "myth" and dates to 1753.

by eli

6/10/2026 at 7:58:45 PM

Why do you think that?

by Computer0

6/11/2026 at 4:30:14 AM

Can't wait to use Claude Cinematic Universe!

by fzxu22

6/11/2026 at 4:29:37 PM

Requiem would be pretty cool for ASI.

by llelouch

6/10/2026 at 8:33:15 PM

Allegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix

by hawkjo

6/11/2026 at 12:36:22 AM

The Chinese models are well written fan fic

by lizardking

6/11/2026 at 8:06:54 PM

Qwen is a really good name.

by dr_kiszonka

6/10/2026 at 10:53:51 PM

id love it if their last model, like some sorta far-ASI, in context RSI monster, be called `claude fin`

by sometimelurker

6/11/2026 at 2:16:08 AM

Semantic inflation.

by linzhangrun

6/10/2026 at 10:02:30 PM

Idk why I thought it was Simon Willianson blog, the names are kinda similar

by kelvinjps10

6/10/2026 at 8:38:40 PM

Meanwhile Apple be like:

Siri AI !

by hmokiguess

6/10/2026 at 11:13:00 PM

They are doing their best.

by kridsdale1

6/10/2026 at 9:24:53 PM

- Claude Potato

- Claude Skynet

- Claude HAL 9000

- Claude Auto

- Google Claude

- Claude Whatchamacallit

by hmokiguess

6/10/2026 at 11:38:16 PM

- Claude Cloud

- Claude Copilot

- Claude Vibe Code

by pseidemann

6/10/2026 at 8:37:15 PM

- Magnum Opus

- Fairytale

- Pulp Fiction

by jansan

6/10/2026 at 8:34:26 PM

Socrates?

by joseph3553

6/10/2026 at 9:39:46 PM

That might be the theme. Or we could be looking at something like:

-- Mythos

-- Fable

-- Fantasy

-- Delusion

-- Pareidolia

-- Psychosis

by MarkusQ

6/11/2026 at 12:54:36 AM

[flagged]

by jlintc

6/10/2026 at 8:53:57 PM

[dead]

by refactron_SOTA