[…] “Two years ago we unveiled next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short),” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. “We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard.” Pichai said Bard processes information from the internet Read more about Google unleashes fightback to ChatGPT: Bard[…]

Chinese web giant Baidu, which has “AI” in its name and has made AI the focus of its hyperscale cloud, has revealed it will launch a generative AI chatbot later this year. Chinese media reported the launch and Baidu confirmed it to The Register. “The company plans to complete internal testing in March before making Read more about China’s Baidu reveals its own bilingual generative AI chat / imagebot with 85 billion more parameters than ChatGPT (which has 175b)[…]