Posted by mfiguiere 19 hours ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44344246
107 comments, 1 year ago.
Aaaaand it’s gone.
Who do you think pays for your subscription's actual usage?
Next logical step: mandatory age sniffing but it can only be done if you have AI. Those not complying will be denied access to the www.
> Tf is sol?
It's a proper noun: the name given to their latest and greatest model. Means "Sun" in Latin. Similar to how Anthropic has been naming its models Fable, Opus, Sonnet etc. Their other models are called Terra (Latin: Earth) and Luna (Latin: Moon) [0].
> Tf is ultra?
The name of the "harness" around the model. It'll use deeper thinking, subagents and all that jazz in response to a prompt. Other options include max, high, medium etc I suppose.
> Tf is codex?
"Coding agent" similar to Claude Code [1], something with a more descriptive name.
> Tf happened to descriptive nomenclature?
Something like GLM-4-32B-0414-128K (not made up [2]) doesn't quite roll off the tongue I suppose.
[0]: https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
> Something like GLM-4-32B-0414-128K (not made up [2]) doesn't quite roll off the tongue I suppose.
Surely it would sell better though if they could communicate what they're selling?
> Coding agent" similar to Claude Code [1], something with a more descriptive name.
Does this really need branding at all? Surely claude should sell itself if it can work as an agent. And if it is a specific model, what tasks is it trained to do? can we see the fucking training to make this money worth it? Or am I just another sucker buying nikes?
All of this hand waving makes me nauseated. People should buy value, not vibes.
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more competition is always good for consumers.