I wouldn't have added a random letter and I would have chosen a name that's less easy to conflate with Gemini.
replyGemma 4? I feel that one was incredibly obvious. Let us please just increase the version numbers.
replyAnthropic is better about this, but then shifted their ordering with the v4 models. Arguably better, but still quite annoying since everything pre-4 uses a different naming scheme.
What do you mean by Anthropic shifting their ordering? It seems to still be consistently Opus > Sonnet > Haiku. They didn't release 4 Haiku, but they also didn't release 3.5 Opus, and pricing wise Sonnet 4 lines up with earlier Sonnets.
replyAs for this Gemma release, I don't think Gemma 4 would be an appropriate name. 3n is limited to very small versions (like 8B total parameters) and is therefore likely less powerful than Gemma 3.
From my impression this is more like a "Gemma 3 Lite" that provides a better speed/quality tradeoff than the smaller Gemma 3 models.
claude-3-7-sonnet-latest -> claude-sonnet-4
replyAlso, I think you just came up with a better name than Gemma 3n. Gemma 3 Lite is a lot easier to understand.
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