How about wine bottle sizes since we're "bottling" a "distillation" of information...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_bottle#Sizes

To get pedantic, wine is not a product of distillation.

That almost makes the metaphor more apt. Wine is the real deal, and brandy is the distilled approximation.

Needs more superlatives. “Biggest” < “Extra Biggest” < “Maximum Biggest”. :D

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"Non Plus Ultra"

Followed by another company introducing their "Plus Ultra" model.

And I'd love to see data compression terminology get an overhaul. Do we need big LLMs or just succinct data structures? Or maybe "compact" would be good enough? (Yeah LLMs are cool but why not just, you know, losslessly compress the actual data in a way that lets us query its content?)

Well the obvious answer is that LLMs are more then just pure search. They can synthesize novel information from their learned knowledge.