Rant on confusing model codenames, plus claim that "barium" was shelved for being too spiky
unironictechbro · x · 2026-10-29
The poster mocks how unintuitive internal model codenames have become—e.g., sonnet < opus < fable or luna < terra < sol < astra offer no obvious ordering. For the rumored carbon and argon, he suggests reading argon as Gemini 4 Ultra and carbon as 4.1. A quoted tweet also claims a model codenamed barium was never released because it was "too spiky"—unverified.
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