Gemini (FKA Bard) vs. Claude

Overview

Gemini is Google's LLM chat product, based on its Bard model, which was based on its Pathways Language Model (PaLM) which succeeded LaMDA. Originally released with limited capabilities, Bard became increasingly capable in the second half of 2023. Bard built upon Google's research in the transformer architecture, Gopher scaling, Chinchilla compute-optimal scaling, and Sparrow dialogue finetuning. As the successor to Bard, Gemini achieves GPT-4-level performance along with the ability to write code and process images.

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
• https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/#availability

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.

Claude is Anthropic's flagship LLM and, as of April 2024, the most competitive cloud LLM offering alongside OpenAI's GPT series. Highly capable, Claude was also originally trained using Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" feedback method. Since the initial release, Anthropic has continued to improve the performance and cost of Claude, most notably in March 2024 with the release of the Claude 3 model family: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, and more recently in June 2024 with the release of Claude Sonnet 3.5, surpassing Claude 3 Opus and at a much lower cost.

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
• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family
• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet