Gemini (FKA Bard) vs. Command R

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

With an author of the "Attention is All You Need" paper as one of its co-founders, Cohere's LLM is built with a focus on enterprise. Products based on its LLM include semantic search, embeddings, and text generation.

Cohere is an AI platform for the enterprise specializing in large language model-powered offerings. Its flagship offering is its Command R model (and the research open weights Command R+) which offer scalable and high-performance models competitive with offerings by companies such as OpenAI and Mistral. Command R+ in particular is designed to peform well on RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) applications, multilingual applications, and tool use.

Initial release: 2021-11-15

Reference

https://docs.cohere.com/docs/the-cohere-platform

Further Reading