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True. And if Carbon (6) is better than Argon (18), wouldn't that make Hydrogen (1) the ultimate Gemini model, or will the next model jump to another random element?

  O, B, Sc, U, Re?
  Ra, Nd?
It’s a missed opportunity that they didn’t go with atomic numbers or mass for model sizes. Both OpenAI and Anthropic does that.

Helium < Neon < Argon < Krypton < Xenon in increasing order, all very cool names.

Google went with the alphabetical order instead, which is less meaningful than the version numbers for the average user.

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