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Bard vs. Inflection-1

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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

Inflection-1

Inflection-1

Overview


Inflection-1 is an LLM introduced by Inflection AI, a startup founded by Reid Hoffman and Mustafa Suleyman. Inflection-1 powers Pi, an AI assistant intended to be a companion chatbot, tracking longer conversations with its users and adapting based on those conversations to each user. On their benchmarks, Inflection-1 outperforms GPT-3.5, LLaMA, Chinchilla, and PaLM-540B.


Initial release: 2023-06-22

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