Why is everything named Gemini these days?

arnaudsm 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Gemini protocol started in 2019, before Google's Gemini in 2023.

It's proably a popular word for tech workers fans of the american space race.

	▲	exasperaited 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or for people who want to evoke notions of duality/parallels/twinship.

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throitallaway 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google renamed Bard to Gemini last year. Side note: Google's "Gemini" product name is way overloaded. They have like 6 different things that you can buy/use that are named that.

	▲	SoftTalker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds like IBM’s “Watson”

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mock-possum 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah it seems like everybody and their brother is naming things Gemini, is there a dual meaning I’m not aware of?

	▲	incognito124 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nice pair of Gemini puns

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adocomplete 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yeah seems like an odd choice for a new project.

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mpalmer 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The project is six years old

	▲	adocomplete 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I stand corrected.

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jasonjmcghee 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This long predates Google LLMs

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didi_bear 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because Copilot was already taken

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chankstein38 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right? I clicked in here thinking it meant Google's Gemini but of course not just another uncreative name that clutters search results. (I'm not sure if Google's Gemini or Project Gemini is the uncreative clutter, but either way.)