I think they are doing that quite deliberately. Like Greg Brockman said when announcing their third product named Codex: “We call this system - (smiling) in the grand tradition of OpenAI naming—Codex” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdpnbfH6NU
;-) I guess it’s too late to start a prediction market on whether gpt5 ends up being lowercased or without the dash before 5 (or with the “o” after 5) ;-) so many options, all tempting ;-)
am not at all involved in naming so not sure, but i’d guess none of it is intentional and more just the emergent result of compromise between a bunch of people / relatively little effort being expended on naming
I wonder who has the actual final decision power, after all deliberations and compromises, who is the person or a group actually saying, “yes, we are naming this new shiny thing as XYZ”.
Is it Sam? Or is there a meeting? Or is it just “organic”, like at some point discussions seem converge to that, and people just let it stay at whatever name it converged to?
Putting GPT back in the name but making it lowercase is a fun new installment in the “OpenAI can’t name things consistently” saga.
they’re actually referring to throwing your doctor, which is why it’s called “gp-toss”
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I think they are doing that quite deliberately. Like Greg Brockman said when announcing their third product named Codex: “We call this system - (smiling) in the grand tradition of OpenAI naming—Codex” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdpnbfH6NU
;-) I guess it’s too late to start a prediction market on whether gpt5 ends up being lowercased or without the dash before 5 (or with the “o” after 5) ;-) so many options, all tempting ;-)
am not at all involved in naming so not sure, but i’d guess none of it is intentional and more just the emergent result of compromise between a bunch of people / relatively little effort being expended on naming
Thanks!
I wonder who has the actual final decision power, after all deliberations and compromises, who is the person or a group actually saying, “yes, we are naming this new shiny thing as XYZ”.
Is it Sam? Or is there a meeting? Or is it just “organic”, like at some point discussions seem converge to that, and people just let it stay at whatever name it converged to?