Bard
Google's answer to ChatGPT: Bard chatbot opened to users in the US and UK on a LaMDA model.
First consumer Google chatbot, a lightweight LaMDA variant behind a waitlist. Announced 2023-02-06 for trusted testers. It later moved to PaLM 2 (2023-05) and Gemini Pro (2023-12-06), and was renamed Gemini on 2024-02-08.
- Date
- Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Lab
- Kind
- product
- Access
- app only
- Price
- Free (waitlist)
Announcement date 2023-02-06 (trusted testers); public access to US/UK users 2023-03-21 is the date used here.
Sources
- blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
- blog.google/technology/ai/try-bard/
- blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-language-model/
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