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    Project Gemini

    (geminiprotocol.net)
    327 points andsoitis | 13 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.676s | source | bottom
    1. rappatic ◴[17 Nov 25 16:10 UTC] No.45954887[source]▶
    Why is everything named Gemini these days?
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    2. adocomplete ◴[17 Nov 25 16:11 UTC] No.45954903[source]▶
    yeah seems like an odd choice for a new project.
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    3. mpalmer ◴[17 Nov 25 16:12 UTC] No.45954915[source]▶
    The project is six years old
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    4. jasonjmcghee ◴[17 Nov 25 16:15 UTC] No.45954952[source]▶
    This long predates Google LLMs
    5. mock-possum ◴[17 Nov 25 16:17 UTC] No.45954976[source]▶
    Yeah it seems like everybody and their brother is naming things Gemini, is there a dual meaning I’m not aware of?
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    6. arnaudsm ◴[17 Nov 25 16:22 UTC] No.45955052[source]▶
    The Gemini protocol started in 2019, before Google's Gemini in 2023.

    It's proably a popular word for tech workers fans of the american space race.

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    7. adocomplete ◴[17 Nov 25 16:29 UTC] No.45955130{3}[source]▶
    I stand corrected.
    8. incognito124 ◴[17 Nov 25 16:32 UTC] No.45955170[source]▶
    Nice pair of Gemini puns
    9. didi_bear ◴[17 Nov 25 17:11 UTC] No.45955616[source]▶
    Because Copilot was already taken
    10. throitallaway ◴[17 Nov 25 17:20 UTC] No.45955712[source]▶
    Google renamed Bard to Gemini last year. Side note: Google's "Gemini" product name is way overloaded. They have like 6 different things that you can buy/use that are named that.
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    11. exasperaited ◴[17 Nov 25 17:25 UTC] No.45955773[source]▶
    Or for people who want to evoke notions of duality/parallels/twinship.
    12. chankstein38 ◴[17 Nov 25 19:45 UTC] No.45957414[source]▶
    Right? I clicked in here thinking it meant Google's Gemini but of course not just another uncreative name that clutters search results. (I'm not sure if Google's Gemini or Project Gemini is the uncreative clutter, but either way.)
    13. SoftTalker ◴[18 Nov 25 03:46 UTC] No.45961169[source]▶
    Sounds like IBM’s “Watson”