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Bard vs. ChatGPT

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Bard

Bard

Overview

Bard is Google's LLM chat product, based on its Pathways Language Model (PaLM) which succeeded LaMDA. Originally released with limited capabilities, Bard has become increasingly capable in the second half of 2023, most recently gaining the ability to help write and debug code. Bard builds upon Google's research in the transformer architecture, Gopher scaling, Chinchilla compute-optimal scaling, and Sparrow dialogue finetuning.



Initial release: 2023-03-21

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

Overview

The engine behind the fastest growing product of all time, ChatGPT is the successor to OpenAI's InstructGPT model. Originally based on GPT-3, ChatGPT now provides options for users to either use its GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 base model.



Initial release: 2022-11-30

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License NA NA
Model Sizes Unknown, 540B+ 175B, 1T*