After Comet, the whole AI industry went cosmos-pilled with space names
eschadiol · x · 2026-09-16
A developer notes that a year ago nobody in AI used space metaphors in product naming — then Comet launched, and now OpenAI, Grok, and Google are all cosmos-pilled. They've used Luna, Terra, Sol, Astra, and Umbra as color and codenames for years, and it suddenly feels taken.
Related event: Perplexity's Comet sparks a cosmic naming trend across AI(2 posts)→
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