Why does Microsoft always create so many ugly, confusing, and ridiculous product names? The worst of them all is ".Net" (which is really confusing).
Last Updated: 29.06.2025 00:47
When OpenAI released their successor to GPT-4, they called it GPT-4o. Their next model after that was called o1.
When Google released the next version of Gemini 1.5 Pro, they called it Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 (I wish I was joking, but I’m not).
Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
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It’s not just Microsoft. Look at the way top AI companies these days name their foundation models.
And when Anthropic released the successor to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they called it…
But I mean, Microsoft was a pioneer in this field and is still the undisputed king of bad naming.
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*drumroll*
Keep in mind, though, there are only two hard problems in software: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
They didn’t even bother to change the name. What the fuck, guys.
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