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I'm a Googler, and I think this is not only the right move but I've of the better names and renamings that the company has done.

First, Gemini is just a better sounding name than Bard.

And then, few users are going to care about the difference between the model and the app that lets you use the model.

If Google kept this distinction they would have inevitably had to either come up with a new name for a new model, which would be needlessly confusing (when is something a new model would get tricky at times), or just call all models Gemini, again for little utility to users.

Now they can just call all the generative AI Gemini and be five with it. Bard becomes the Gemini chat interface. Duet is Gemini integrated into docs. The Gemini model can just get version numbers.

It's much simpler and nicer sounding to boot.

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You say it's a good naming choice, yet you called it Gemeni, Gemini and Gimini.

I hope you're trolling, and I've missed the joke.

Additionally, the package name of the "new app" is com.google.android.apps.bard and the privacy policy is at https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13594961

Was this a last minute rename?

Edit: I thought I was going crazy, but it seems you have just edited the comment now, but left a couple of Gemeni around :)

> You say it's a good naming choice, yet you called it Gemeni, Gemini and Gimini.

English isn't everyone's first language. I'm fairly certain you've butchered spellings of Nouns originating in other languages.

This only reinforces the opinion of it being a bad naming choice (on top of the confusing product vs technology part)

There are few other "Gemeni" around this comment too (from other users).

Gemini means "The Twins", but why such name ?

>I'm a Googler, and I think this is not only the right move but I've of the better names and renamings that the company has done.

>First, Gemeni is just a better sounding name than Bard.

>And then, few years are going to care about the difference between the model and the app that lets you use the model. If Google kept this distinction they would have inevitably had to either come up with a new name for a new model, which would be needlessly confusing (when is something a new model would get tricky at times), or just call all models Gemeni, again for little utility to users.

>Now they can just call all the generative AI Gemeni and be five with it. Bard becomes the Gemeni chat interface. Duet is Gemeni integrated into docs. The Gemeni model can just get version numbers.

>It's much simpler and nicer sounding to boot.

It would be a little bit more confidence inspiring if you could get the name correct as a Googler.

Unless Gemeni is the top secret internal name inside Mountain View

I don't work on it, but thanks for the kind correction!

By Jiminy, I think, uncertainly, that Bard is better and shorter, though maybe there were some copyright issues with other companies and it was easier to change the name.

Cache invalidation and naming things are two of the hardest things in Computer Science, and so on.

By the way, there is still a Gemeni in there (“Bard becomes the *Gemeni* chat interface…”).

Gemini is free but not as good. You get gemini pro for it though, for free.

To get the good staff you need gemini ultra. And to get that you need to pay for gemini advanced.

Yeah, not confusing at all.

Selling gemini ultra to get gemini ultra is too simple for google.

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