AI Names & Their Secret Origins

From a math genius to a Martian verb, the biggest AI names hide surprisingly wild backstories.

The top 3

  1. Claude Honors A Math Legend: Anthropic named Claude after Claude Shannon, whose 1948 work founded information theory.
  2. Grok Is A Martian Verb: Grok was coined in Heinlein's 1961 novel and means to understand something so fully you merge with it.
  3. What The 'T' In GPT Means: GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, built on Google's 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper.

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