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Comment by patrakov | Hacker News Reader

The name is misleading: this project is not based on LLaMA as released by Meta. It sends data to OpenAI by default.

It's not really. It was unfortunate timing. This used to be called GPT-Index, and then they changed names before Meta released their LLM. So their use predated it.

I feel sorry for the amazing team behind this great library. Changing names is hard.

17 feb 2023, https://twitter.com/llama_index/status/1626387226639888385

'Today, we’re kicking off a rebrand of @gpt_index to : LlamaIndex '

Meta announcing LLaMa 24 feb 2023 https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta...

third time's a charm

Wow, that is some really bad luck.

Was Llama a top-secret name at Meta? Could it have leaked?

It's a pretty easy pun to arrive at from the letters LLM, so I don't think we need a leak to explain the coincidence.

Oh, right. I always miss these puns.

Why is it hard? They should change it back.

s/Llama/GPT-/g

OpenAI has started sending out threatening letters to people who use GPT in their project name. If they don't want to be the test case for that (pending) trademark, I don't blame them.

Imma gonna go and grab gippity.com asap.

Holy sh.t! I didn't know that.

Discussed here a few months back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973645

Thanks

Still, they could have used a more general term other than "llama". They had it coming imo.

Sometimes developers come up with creative and interesting names for their products, but other times they fail miserably.

They being Meta or they being the developers of LlamaIndex? As noted in your sibling comment, LlamaIndex was public first.

the latter. Meta’s naming made sense cuz it was an acronym. LlamaIndex sounds like a joke name and not well thought out for such an ambitious product.

Meta's naming is clearly also a joke. It's a backronym, not an acronym— it's pretty obvious they started with Llama and came up with a cute acronym to justify it.

Large LAnguage Model Meta AI

Not saying they're not entitled to use the name too, but laying the blame on the developers of LlamaIndex when they had no idea that LLaMA was coming isn't fair to them.

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