along withOpenAIIntroducing the next generation of GPTLarge Language ModelGPT-4o Mini, CEO Sam Altman finally acknowledged the problem with the way his product was named. The GPT-4o Mini released this time is promoted as more cost-effective than the non-Mini version, especially suitable for enterprises to develop their own chatbots. However, this complicated and cumbersome naming has caused widespread criticism.
This time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally responded to the criticism from the outside world, admitting that the naming of this string of numbers and letters is indeed a bit confusing. Regarding the name "GPT-4o Mini", he tweeted, "It's time to consider a renaming plan."
On the X platform (formerly Twitter), technology YouTuber Concept Central quipped, "You guys really need to improve your naming scheme." To which Altman responded with an internet buzzword: "Haha, yes we do." This rare response shows the importance OpenAI takes the naming issue.
Despite the challenges OpenAI faces in naming its products, it has shown more creative naming in other projects. For example, OpenAI's video generator Sora means "sky" or "void" in Japanese, while the image generator DALL-E is an obvious tribute to the Pixar movie "WALL-E" and the artist Salvador Dali. Even rumors about the company's advanced AI projects, such as the code names "Q*" and "Strawberry", show its unique ideas in naming.
In contrast, the naming of the GPT series seems too basic, and its full name "Generative Pre-trained Transformer" is almost equivalent to the general classification of all large language models in this category. Nevertheless, due to the huge popularity of ChatGPT and its related LLMs, it remains unclear whether OpenAI will make a comprehensive renaming of the existing naming system.
OpenAI said that although it has noticed the naming problem, considering the widespread use of ChatGPT and its underlying LLM, it may not make large-scale adjustments to the naming in the short term. It is worth paying attention to whether the company will innovate in naming in the future.