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Comment by hangrybear666 | Hacker News Reader

What's this name and versioning now, NOBODY understands Google's Ai products, including subscribers to them.

Why their models go from 3 to 4 but then whatever this is starts at 1 I honestly don't care anymore

My friend on Google ai plus is still stuck on gemini 3.6 flash and now they're taking away 3.1 pro from them too even though it's long obsolete, like zero regard for user interactions here

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honestly the naming on all of them from all companies is weird unless you 'know where to look'. I get having a cool code name for each one. But give me a clear way to look at it and see why should I use one model over another? like 'low/medium/high' something?! please!

Yeah, it would be nice if there was some standardized naming. You'd think these AI companies would benefit if users actually knew which models were the fast ones and which models were the more capable ones. It's easy for the layman to get bad output and come to the wrong conclusion, writing off an entire brand.

Suggestions?

Maybe it's because I'm more in the Anthropic ecosystem, but I find their naming convention pretty straight forward. I've given up trying to follow OpenAI, but they have a version number that goes up and sometimes they call one of them "cyber" so you know it's I guess extra good at red teaming?

Google is just beyond me I have no idea what they're doing, and no interest in figuring it out. I use a free gemini flash model in one of my personal apps, but that's it

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