AI product naming shifts from grand cosmic narratives to everyday roles
An analysis published by Huxiu AI (author "叫我茉莉同学") traces how AI product naming has changed: early products leaned on technical mechanisms (ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion), cosmic or philosophical imagery (Tongyi Qianwen, Hunyuan, Moonshot, Midjourney, Grok) or Latin/Greek roots (Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral), answering what a product believes in rather than what it does. As technology matured and competition shifted toward scale and growth, the article argues, names moved toward defining human-AI relationships (such as Claude Cowork or Tencent's Buddy family) or toward plain, memorable labels (the author cites Nano Banana and Jaguar). Using Moonshot/Kimi and DeepSeek as examples, it says a company name speaks to capital and talent while a product name speaks to users — the name is really a claim on the product's social role. These are the author's opinions and examples, not official company statements.