Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
sammycdubs
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June 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (19 comments)
bitpush
This is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"
xyzsparetimexyz
Canto? Epic? Libretto? Axiom?
qsort
It's almost certainly a reference to Lovecraft actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos Hopefully future models will be kind enough not to behave like malevolent gods.
winstonp
I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI
Robin_Message
> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture
arjie
The Dario Legendarium is definitely going to be a fun piece of work for historians to interrogate as to the origin of this age. The relative personalities of the orgs involved show somewhat in their naming: {o1,4o,3.5,5.5} vs. {Haiku,Sonnet,Opus} vs. {3.1, 3.5-pro, 3.5-flash, 3.5-flash-lite} vs. {3.7, 3.7-plus, 3.7-max} It's a pity that Samsung isn't in the mix. I would have liked to have used a model named Samsung Galaxy S10+ 5G Lite.
coder543
Don't forget the open weight model they could release: Free Verse.
kuboble
Corpus seems to fit and add is missing from the list
OisinMoran
Fan Fiction: Open weight distillations / riffs
cyclopeanutopia
The last one will be "Killer Joke".
bensyverson
Other candidates: - Serial (produces an incredibly exciting response which ends in a cliffhanger that withholds the answer) - Prequel (instead of responding, it provides the full backstory leading up to your question) - Yarn (maximizes output tokens by taking a long winding route to your answer) - Head Canon (answers using its own entertainingly weird theories about the input) - Overstory (your answer is interwoven with the answers from eight other users into a larger and deeply intertwined meta-answer) - Oeuvre (for every question, it produces a diverse but cohesive body of work across a variety of mediums, each one a heartbreaking masterpiece in its own right)
bhu8
I like how the original triplet's initials represent their behavior well: - Opus is OP, like OverPowered - Sonnet is SO, like your significant other (this was more meaningful in Sonnet 3.7 days) - Haiku is HA, like the reaction to a bad joke The latest model, naturally, needed three letters: FAB. I'm now looking forward to ABS and LO
mekdoonggi
Claude Word: a model that returns a single word.
exabrial
Anthropic intentionally degrading responses shows you they're also focusing on the wrong things. Rather than producing the best model possible, they're nerfing their models' capabilities.
hcrisp
I asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested: - Epic - Tale - Saga - Chronicle - Legend - Logos
petalmind
Claude Epitaph
renyicircle
Tractatus - highly aware of its limitations and refuses to speak about too many topics. Really likes numbering statements. Unusable due to a context window bug which is patched after considerable delay.
hawkjo
Allegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix
rayng
I saw a comment on HN that they (Sonnet and Haiku) were originally named from a nearby coffeeshop. https://postscript.co/pages/shop-coffee-beans