They're just following the current AI marketing playbook. "Our new model is simply too dangerous to release to the public right away" is now standard practice.

They even gave their model a random nonsensical name suffix simply because OpenAI is now doing it, too. Monkey see, monkey do.

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A_D_E_P_T 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm still at a loss as to what argon has to do with anything. Say what you will about Luna-Terra-Sol-Astra, or Haiku-Sonnet-Opus, they make sense. I don't see how Google can make sense of argon; it's in a fairly strange place in the periodic table...

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brainwad 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are going alphabetically, Android style.

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IX-103 an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I heard the next one was Barium...or was it Boron?

I was going to say I don't know what they'd do for C, since Carbon and Calcium are already things. But knowing Google, they'll probably call it Chromium.

	▲	A_D_E_P_T 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They could use caesium or cadmium, which are hardly less weird than argon.

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fooker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google R Gon lose the AI race

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ryandrake 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

All-my-tokens-ar-gon

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jstummbillig 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> now standard practice.

Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1, literally state of the art (in their respective class), were just released without any prior announcement. This has pure and simple become a Google thing.

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kevinh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

OpenAI said they dropped Astra 6.1 over safety concerns: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-model-release-can...

	▲	jstummbillig an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't read that as the same category: There was no announcement, no benchmarks, no limited release and no promises about what will happen with that model. It failed internal safety standards. Might be scrapped entirely due to a failed training run, for all we know.