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.
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.
