[phoe18]

The branding is very confusing, shouldn't this be Gemini Pro 1.5 since the most capable model is called Ultra 1.0?

[UncleMeat]

Google is somehow truly awful at this. I thought it was funny when branding messes happened in 2017. I cried when they announced "Google Meet (original)." Now I don't even know what to do.

I'm stunned that Google hasn't appointed some "name veto person" that can just say "no, you aren't allowed to have three different things called 'Gemini Advanced', 'Gemini Pro', and 'Gemini Ultra.'" Like surely it just takes Sundar saying "this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen" to some SVP to fix this.

[meowface]

And somehow the more advanced one is still on 1.0 (for now) and the less advanced one is on 1.5.

[summerlight]

This is something close to CPU versioning. You have two axis; performance branding and its generation. Nano, Pro and Ultra is something similar to i3, i5 and i7. The numbered versions 1.0, 1.5, ... can be mapped to 13th gen, 14th gen, ... so on. And people usually don't need to understand the generation part this unless they're enthusiasts.

[iamdelirium]

No? Do you call it the iPhone Pro 15 or the iPhone 15 Pro? Their naming makes sense if you follow most consumer technology.

[seydor]

We will ask what its real name is as soon as it becomes sentient

[dkjaudyeqooe]

Can anyone lay out the various models and their features or point to a resource?

I asked the free model (whatever that is) and it wasn't very helpful, alterating betweens a sales bot for Ultra and being somewhat confused itself.

Edit: apparently it goes 1.0 Pro, 1.0 Ultra, 1.5 Pro, 1.5 Ultra and so on.

[Alifatisk]

Here's the models, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304270 This is about Gemini Pro going from version 1.0 to 1.5, nothing else.

Gemini ultra 1.0 is still on version 1.0

[blurbleblurble]

Extremely confusing!

[butler14]

Maybe they use their own generative AI to do their branding