Welcome to today’s episode where we dive into an amusing yet perplexing issue in the tech world: the naming of AI models. It seems AI companies are just as bad as streaming services when it comes to coherent branding. Take OpenAI’s latest, GPT-4.1—a name that left many users scratching their heads, unsure of its place among other models like GPT-4o and GPT-4.5. Sam Altman himself joked, “How about we fix our model naming by this summer and everyone gets a few more months to make fun of us, which we very much deserve until then?”

Anthropic, with its own series, has followed a similar trajectory—starting with Claude 1, 2, and 3, before switching to decimals. And then there are the names themselves: Opus, Sonnet, Haiku—models named after literary forms that they threaten to overshadow.

Even Google, with its dual-natured “Gemini,” is not spared from the confusion, especially when their iterations like 1.5 and 2.5 come with baffling add-ons like Flash and Ultra.

Last but not least, we have Meta, whimsically calling their models Llama and naming individual models things like Scout and Maverick, almost as if they’re casting for a Top Gun sequel.

As hilariously chaotic as it all sounds, it raises the question: how are these tech giants going to tackle their branding blunders?
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