Gemini (FKA Bard) vs. Jurassic

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

Developed by AI21, a startup founded by luminaries from Stanford and Mobileye, Jurassic was one of the first LLMs to challenge GPT-3. While it includes some support for code, Jurassic is more focused on reading and writing use cases, perhaps linked to AI21's development of other tools such as Wordtune. Jurassic also introduced the MRKL system for interfacing with external, non-neural modules.

Initial release: 2021-08-11

Reference

https://www.ai21.com/studio

Further Reading

• https://www.ai21.com/blog/jurassic-x-crossing-the-neuro-symbolic-chasm-with-the-mrkl-system