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It makes sense. And Google is its own way to name all AI products “Gemini”.

Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

Next year they will introduce "hAIngouts" as an AI chat bot.

Ouch. Maybe "Google wAIve" for collaborative chats.

> Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

I think they were lucky this time that they landed a good name after only a few iterations that has since stuck.

Anyone remember Google Bard or LaMDA?

The r/Bard subreddit is still quite active for some reason. Reminds me of Google Glass.

I still like the name Bard

Didn't it start as Bard?

Well it depends on what you're talking about. The model names were originally called lambda, followed by palm and then finally gemini. The chatbot product was internally known as meena, launched as Bard, and then transitioned to Gemini once the Gemini model came out.

They’ve improved it since the initial launch when the service, model names and plan names all sounded similar and contradictory.

there is vertex ai, notebooklm, antigravity, nano banana, veo, lyria, the open models are gemma and gato

But they put Gemini in google docs, they didn’t rename Docs to Gemini like Microsoft did.

And IBM has "Watson"

SAP sales reps used HANA for "cloud" in the beginning... Which was bs back then and is today. But while everybody wanted to be in the cloud, SAP sales was scared to not be with the cool kids, when they do not somehow add to the cloud talk

And Silly has Silly!

It doesn’t make sense. Google has a least its own LLMs, MS just uses others. So Copilot could be OpenAI or Anthropic.

At work we have licenses for Copilot and Copilot but not Copilot and everyone gets Copilot but only some get Copilot.

Probably will use other astrology terms. Like the way android is named for desserts.

Google Scorpio will be their best model yet, except sometimes it will say things that cut you to the core.

It most certainly isn't astrology that was on Google's mind when they decided for Gemini.

Made me curious enough to look it up...

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/google-gemini...

I think they'll more likely launch competing AI projects like 'Aquarius' and 'Doh' or something

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