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.

	▲	layer8 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ouch. Maybe "Google wAIve" for collaborative chats.

ayewo 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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?

	▲	chirau 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The r/Bard subreddit is still quite active for some reason. Reminds me of Google Glass.
	▲	spencerflem 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I still like the name Bard

owlninja 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Didn't it start as Bard?

	▲	surajrmal 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

chatmasta 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

nurettin 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

Twirrim 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And IBM has "Watson"

	▲	lschueller 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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
	▲	tylerchilds 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And Silly has Silly!

idontwantthis 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

conductr 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	throwaway173738 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Google Scorpio will be their best model yet, except sometimes it will say things that cut you to the core.
	▲	hanspeter 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It most certainly isn't astrology that was on Google's mind when they decided for Gemini.

croes 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

gedy 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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