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points by andai 1 day ago | 0 comments

What's Carbon then? I haven't been paying much attention to Google but their naming has been confusing me.

Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra was a bit pretentious but at least the sizing makes sense. (I imagined the meeting... "Ok guys, we're getting mogged on naming... what's more epic than a Myth?" -"The SUN!")

Anthropic makes sense with the literary "scale" naming, mostly.

Is a Carbon bigger than an Argon though? Maybe it has to do with the atomic number?

[–] WarmWash 1 day ago

Carbon is the next iteration (via RL training) of the Argon sized model.

[–] jimbob45 1 day ago

Wait are you trolling? Because I thought the answer was that Carbon is their successor to C++.

[–] andai 11 hours ago

Gemini 4 Carbon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792

I remember the other one though. Looks like it's still going.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(programming_language)

[–] conception 1 day ago

A B (not released) C

[–] lukeschlather 1 day ago

Carbon is to Argon as Mythos is to Fable.

[–] hirako2000 1 day ago

Carbon is to Aragon what Fable is to Mythos.

[–] knollimar 1 day ago

I thought carbon was smarter?

[–] lukeschlather 1 day ago

Yes, Carbon and Mythos are the secret super-smart models you can't use without an invitation and a million dollars.

[–] knollimar 1 day ago

But Cargon isn't likely the same model as Argon while Fable is mythos with cyber guardrails