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Bard vs. Cohere

LLM Comparison


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

Cohere

Cohere

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, text generation, summarization, and classification.



Initial release: 2021-11-15

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
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Model Sizes Unknown, 540B+ 6B, 13B, 52B