Science & Tech · AI · 6 hrs ago
Meta will stop using fruit names for its AI models
Meta has decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit.
The decision was made internally at the social media company, which is led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Its latest AI model, Wonder Full, had the codename Watermelon; earlier models were called Avocado and Mango.
Meta said Wonder Full was its first cutting-edge “frontier” model, a term for a highly advanced AI system.
The company is changing the naming approach because fruit codenames do not fit its ambitions for AI.
Other tech companies have also used grocery-themed names, while some newer models have names meant to sound more ambitious.
Meta has not announced what naming convention it will use next.
Meta has internally decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The change is largely a branding decision, as fruit-based codenames do not fit the company’s AI ambitions, the person said.
Meta’s latest AI, Wonder Full, was internally codenamed Watermelon; the company described it as its first cutting-edge “frontier” model.
Previous Meta models were called Avocado and Mango.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and AI chief Alexandr Wang joked last month that they had run out of fruit names.
- Who
- Meta. The decision was described by a person familiar with the matter.
- What
- Meta has internally decided to stop using fruit names for its AI models.
- When
- The timing of the decision was not stated. Zuckerberg and Wang discussed the lack of fruit names last month.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- It is largely a branding decision; the source said fruit-based codenames do not fit Meta’s AI ambitions.
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- Latest AI codename
- Watermelon
- Latest AI name
- Wonder Full
- Previous language model codename
- Avocado
- Previous image model codename
- Mango
- Decision
- Meta will stop using fruit names for its AI models
What people are saying
We're out of fruits
I think the only fruit that is technically larger is the durian, and you don't want to go to the durian