From The Verge: Earlier this month, Google announced the release of Gemini, what it considers its most powerful AI model yet. It integrated Gemini immediately into its flagship generative AI chatbot, Bard, in hopes of steering more users away from its biggest competitor, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
ChatGPT and the new Gemini-powered Bard are similar products. Gemini Pro is most comparable to GPT-4, available in the subscription-based ChatGPT Plus. So we decided to test the two chatbots to see just how they stack up — in accuracy, speed, and overall helpfulness.
ChatGPT Plus and Gemini Pro are both very advanced chatbots based on large language models. They’re the latest and greatest options from their respective companies, promised to be faster and better at responding to queries than their predecessors. Most importantly, both are trained on recent information, rather than only knowing what was on the internet until 2021. They’re also fairly simple to use as standalone products, in contrast to something like X’s new Grok bot, deployed as an extra on ex-Twitter.
The two are not exactly equal, however. For one thing, Bard is free — while the GPT-4-powered ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month to access. For another, Bard powered by Gemini Pro does not have the multimodal capabilities of ChatGPT Plus. Multimodal language models can take a text prompt and respond with another medium like a photo or a video. Gemini and Bard will eventually do that, but that will be with the bigger version of Gemini called Ultra that Google has yet to release. Bard will occasionally spit out graphical results, but by that, I mean it literally makes graphs.
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