In the past, whenever a new AI model launched, developers would rack their brains to come up with a unique, catchy name.
Sometimes, the name itself became so viral that it overshadowed the actual capabilities of the model. Before anyone even figured out what the model could do, the name was already trending across social media.
From Strawberries to Pandas to Bananas
This naming wave arguably started with OpenAI’s “Strawberry”, which Sam Altman teased with a single image — sparking widespread online speculation:
After that, naming models after fruits and animals became a trend.
- AI startup Recraft launched its mysterious red_panda.
- Google unveiled the widely hyped Nano Banana.
Nano Banana turned out to be officially called Gemini 2.5 Flash, but let’s be honest — everyone still prefers Nano Banana. Cute names have brought AI models to a new cultural level.
Enter the “Carrot” Model
Now, a new contender has appeared: Carrot — a code-focused model with impressive programming abilities.
It seems the naming convention is moving from fruits to vegetables, but don’t let the playful name fool you: this model is seriously capable.
Carrot appears inside Anycoder, a platform focused on AI-assisted programming. When browsing through the model list, alongside names like DeepSeek V3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok-4, and GPT-5, Carrot quietly sits among the giants:
Source: Anycoder on Hugging Face
Powerful Coding Demonstrations
Community testers quickly validated Carrot’s strengths with eye-catching demos:
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A game where a rabbit dodges carrots — with the carrots fired as projectiles. The gameplay is both quirky and fun:
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A voxel-based pagoda garden, beautifully rendered:
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Stunning super-particle animations in P5.js:
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A Gemma-3-270M chatbot built using
transformer.js, showing strong conversational performance:
Source: X / AK
These examples highlight Carrot’s versatility across gaming, graphics, and interactive applications.
Who’s Behind Carrot?
Unsurprisingly, curiosity is running wild. Comment sections are buzzing with theories:
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Some suspect Google, since it recently introduced Nano Banana. Fruits first, vegetables next?
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Others speculate it might be from Moonshot AI’s Kimi.
But that seems unlikely: Moonshot just rolled out Kimi K2 0905, boasting stronger coding abilities. If Carrot were theirs, it would probably have been announced openly by now.
Key Takeaway
Whether it’s a fruit or a vegetable, whimsical names are clearly reshaping how we talk about AI. But beneath the playful surface, Carrot is proving itself as a serious coding powerhouse worth watching.