ChatGPT vs. Command R

Overview

The engine behind the fastest growing product of all time, ChatGPT is the successor to OpenAI's InstructGPT model. Originally based on GPT-3, ChatGPT now provides options for users to either use its GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 base model. Most recently, GPT-4o with multimodal support was released, topping various benchmarks.

Initial release: 2022-11-30

Reference

https://chatgpt.com

Further Reading

• https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
• https://openai.com/research/instruction-following

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