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the latter. Meta’s naming made sense cuz it was an acronym. LlamaIndex sounds like a joke name and not well thought out for such an ambitious product.


Meta's naming is clearly also a joke. It's a backronym, not an acronym— it's pretty obvious they started with Llama and came up with a cute acronym to justify it.

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Not saying they're not entitled to use the name too, but laying the blame on the developers of LlamaIndex when they had no idea that LLaMA was coming isn't fair to them.




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