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Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated
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Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects. To keep pace with competitors, the company is developing a broad portfolio of models optimized for the full literary stack. | Model Name | Description | |---|---| | Aphorism | One sentence, but it always feels right | | Haiku | Small poem, small bill | | Marginalia | Provides unprompted commentary on your code | | Abstract |...
Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated
With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects. To keep pace with competitors, the company is developing a broad portfolio of models optimized for the full literary stack.
| Model Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Aphorism | One sentence, but it always feels right |
| Haiku | Small poem, small bill |
| Marginalia | Provides unprompted commentary on your code |
| Abstract | Summarizes reasoning it hasn’t done |
| Sonnet | Medium poem, medium bill |
| Diatribe | Sonnet, but angry |
| Opus | Long poem, entire bill |
| Treatise | Opus, but citation is left as an exercise for the reader |
| White Paper | Treatise, but you have to enter your email to get it |
| Mythos | Opus, but scary |
| Fable | Mythos, but the moral is about AI safety |
| Fable (xhigh) | Bankruptcy speedrun |
| Saga | Fable, but with extra meandering |
| Saga (Unabridged) | Includes answers to unrelated questions |
| Canon | Refuses to contradict prior answers |
| Lore | Interpretation requires a wiki |
| Cinematic Universe | Multiple Sagas with a Canon dispatch layer |
| Cinematic Universe (Director's Cut) | Same answer, 42% more tokens |
| Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit | Requires "previously on" segment prior to usage |
| Zach Snyder's Saga | Terminal turns black and white, becomes harder to follow |