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Can you spot the real AI model names?

AI model names are a branding disaster. Take our quiz to see if you can tell which are the real model names and which are fake.

Jon Keegan

4/16/25 12:09PM

The revolution in AI has brought us incredible technology, dramatic leaps in performance... and some terrible product branding.

OpenAI sits atop the competition in brand recognition with its ChatGPT agent, but when you are faced with choosing which model to use, you have to pick from eight different flavors of models like “o3-mini-high” and “GPT-4o.”

Just this week, the company released three new models: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano.

And it’s not just the plucky young startups that are branding their amazing new tech with a jumble of names, version numbers, and parameter sizes.

Take Google for instance — it currently offers nine flavors of its Gemini AI model, with such catchy names as “Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental,” “Gemini 1.0 Ultra,” and “Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview.”

We gathered a list of real AI model names from a wide array of AI companies, and then made up a list of fake AI model names that followed the same patterns.

Play our quiz to see how well you can pick the real models over the fake ones.

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Salesforce jumps as Q3 earnings top expectations

Salesforce jumped after-hours Wednesday as it posted earnings and guidance that beat analysts’ expectations. Its adjusted earnings per share came in at $3.25 for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, above the FactSet analyst consensus estimate of $2.86. Its revenue rose 9% to $10.3 billion, in line with expectations.

The software-as-a-service company issued fourth-quarter revenue guidance of $11.13 billion to $11.23 billion, well above the $10.9 billion analysts had predicted. It also forecast adjusted earnings of $3.02 to $3.04 per share, compared with analysts’ expectations of $3.04.

Shares were up 4.3% in recent trading.

“Our Agentforce and Data 360 products are the momentum drivers,” CEO Marc Benioff said in the press release.

Last quarter, Salesforce shares fell after the company issued disappointing third-quarter guidance. Coming into today’s report, the stock was down about 30% year to date.

Investors will be watching the earnings call closely for updates on the company’s AI strategy — particularly progress on Agentforce and broader adoption of its AI-driven cloud offerings.

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Report: Meta poaches Apple design chief Alan Dye

Meta has poached Alan Dye, the head of Apple’s user interface design team since 2015, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The hire follows several major leadership changes at Apple as it struggles to catch up after a slow start to the AI explosion.

Per the report, Dye will head a new design lab at Meta tasked with integrating AI into its consumer electronics, software, and interface designs.

Apple shares were down about 0.6% in late trading.

Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup

Per the report, Dye will head a new design lab at Meta tasked with integrating AI into its consumer electronics, software, and interface designs.

Apple shares were down about 0.6% in late trading.

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Google’s Waymo to expand autonomous driving service to Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh

Alphabet-owned Waymo announced Wednesday that it’s planning on expanding to four additional cities — Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh — though it hasn’t provided a timeline for when customers will be able to access autonomous services in those cities. It’s begun autonomous testing with a safety monitor in Philadelphia, and is collecting data with manual drivers in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh.

The latest announcement comes after a slew of other expansion announcements last month, growing its footprint across the country and strengthening its lead against Tesla. Waymo is currently operating commercial services in five cities and has plans to expand that service to about 20 more.

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Tesla sales drop in Germany, adding to declines across Europe

Tesla sales in Germany, one of its biggest European markets, fell 20% in November and are down nearly 50% through November compared with a year earlier, deepening what has largely been a year of sales declines across the continent.

CEO Elon Musk has said Europe, Tesla’s third-largest market, is its “weakest market,” blaming the lack of regulatory approval for its Full Self-Driving tech.

For what it’s worth, even in places where FSD is allowed, adoption isn’t strong. On the company’s most recent earnings call, CFO Vaibhav Taneja said that globally, only 12% of Tesla’s existing fleet pays for FSD.

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Report: Anthropic hires law firm to prepare for possible IPO in 2026

Anthropic has taken the first steps toward a possible initial public offering next year, according to a new report from the Financial Times.

Anthropic has hired West Coast law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin work on the IPO, per the report.

Anthropic’s valuation has skyrocketed recently, reaching as high as $350 billion by some estimates. An IPO for Anthropic would allow investors one of their first real cracks at tapping into white-hot demand for the private companies at the heart of the generative-AI boom that started three years ago with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT.

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