Bard vs. Claude

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

Reference

https://bard.google.com

Further Reading

• https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html
• https://www.deepmind.com/publications/an-empirical-analysis-of-compute-optimal-large-language-model-training
• https://www.deepmind.com/blog/building-safer-dialogue-agents

Overview

Created in part by several of the developers of OpenAI's GPT-3, Claude is Anthropic's LLM trained with its research in developing helpful and safe AI systems. Highly capable, Claude is also trained using Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" feedback method.

Initial release: 2023-03-14

Reference

https://www.anthropic.com/index/introducing-claude

Further Reading

• https://www.anthropic.com/index/constitutional-ai-harmlessness-from-ai-feedback