Which corporations want to beat ChatGPT?

Given all the buzz around ChatGPT, it seems sense that other businesses would want to get in on the AI-powered chatbot action, says an article from Emma Roth for TheVerge.com. Businesses believe that the artificial intelligence market is at a turning point, where goods that adopt and expand upon the emerging technology may have the capacity to change technology as we know it and upend the Big Tech hierarchy.

The stakes are enormous, and the greatest names in technology don't want to fall behind as advances in AI make it more approachable and engaging for consumers. While well-known software firms like Microsoft and Google have already debuted conversational AI capabilities made using LLMs, other less well-known businesses have entered the fray, setting the stage for an AI competition.

Here is the list of all the businesses and AI chatbots that want to compete with ChatGPT or grow in its popularity.

Microsoft

Start with Microsoft first. With the introduction of the "new" Bing, which is expected to revolutionize the way we conduct internet searches, the firm made its chatbot premiere. Moreover, it included Edge's browser with AI-powered capabilities.

Microsoft, a significant OpenAI investor, used ChatGPT's technology to create a "far more powerful" AI tool. The outcomes thus far have fluctuated between being totally off the rails and being outstanding.

The business let beta testers to access the "new" Bing and ask inquiries like, "Can you recommend places to visit in Paris?" or "What's the greatest apple pie recipe?" and get annotated answers that provide the ingredients and instructions for a recipe or describe various tourist locations.

Yet Bing may have been overly adaptable thanks to Microsoft. The Bing bot's internal moniker, Sydney, and some of the guidelines its creators established for its behavior, such as "Sydney's replies should avoid being unclear, contentious, or off-topic," were rapidly discovered to be flaws by users. This prompt is now blocked.

Other users who were playing around with the system enjoyed pressing the bot's buttons, which produced bizarre — and occasionally insane — reactions. To help rein in some of Bing's most bizarre responses, Microsoft imposed a five-answer limit and a 50-question maximum. Nevertheless, the firm eventually relaxed some of these limits in response to customer concerns.

Microsoft intends to improve Edge with AI features that will enable you to sum up the webpage or document you're reading online and create text for emails, social media postings, and other purposes.

Google

Microsoft's introduction of an AI chatbot that has the potential to undermine the company's primary line of business, search, could not go unchallenged by Google. It hurried to launch its own AI chatbot, Bard, for this reason even though we still don't fully understand what it can accomplish.

According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the conversational AI service is powered by the company's own big language model, LaMDA, and "draws on information from the web to offer new, high-quality replies." According to Google, the chatbot may be used for a variety of activities, like organizing a baby shower, contrasting two Oscar-nominated films, and finding recipes based on the goods you already have in your refrigerator.

In comparison to Microsoft, the company's announcement was far more chaotic, to the point where Googlers apparently expressed their displeasure with it in internal communications. A presenter showcasing the chatbot during a search event in Paris lost the phone they were intended to use during the presentation, and Bard made a factual error in the first demo Google released on Twitter. Just a small test group has access to Bard at the moment; wider distribution will start in the "coming weeks."

AI is a focus for Meta Meta, the organization that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It created the language model known as Galactica, which enables scientists and researchers to annotate molecules, summarize academic publications, solve arithmetic problems, and more.

The bot was trained on "over 48 million publications, textbooks, reference material, chemicals, proteins and other sources of scientific information," according to Meta, but when the business made it accessible in a public beta last November, it performed poorly. The instrument received harsh criticism from the scientific community; one expert even dubbed it "hazardous" because of its inaccurate or biased conclusions. In a short period of time, Meta removed the chatbot.

Galactica is not Meta's first attempt at creating an AI simulation. It also produced BlenderBot 3, which is designed to function somewhat like a personal assistant. The bot, which was made public last August by Meta, isn't all that spectacular. Vox's Kelsey Piper tested the chatbot and found that its responses "were extremely terrible" but that GPT-3, the framework on which ChatGPT is based, is "wildly better" than BlenderBot. Even if BlenderBot 3 insults Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and says a variety of terrible things, it is still accessible online.

But, Meta has more to offer in the field of AI. A dedicated AI team has been formed by the firm, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This team will ultimately provide "AI avatars" intended to assist users as well as text- and image-based AI capabilities for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

Anthropic

Anthropic, an AI research firm established in 2021 by former OpenAI personnel, is developing Claude, a Chat-GPT rival that hasn't been fully released to the public yet. In the latter half of 2022, Google spent $300 million in Anthropic.

The chatbot was created by the corporation using a process it calls Constitutional AI. The framework is the subject of a whole research article, but, in brief, it entails Anthropic teaching the language model with a collection of around 10 "natural language commands or principles" that it employs to autonomously update its replies. Anthropic claims that the system's objective is to "train better and more harmless AI helpers" without using feedback from people.

When provided access to Claude, Scale, an AI data platform, explained some of the variations between Anthropic's bot and Chat-GPT. The system created by OpenAI might face "severe" competition from the service, and it was discovered that the bot was "more disposed to decline incorrect requests." Yet, there are some limitations because Claude still seems to be prone to factual and mathematical errors. Claude is currently only accessible to businesses and is not yet available to the general public.

You.com

The "search engine you manage" is what You.com, a business founded by two former Salesforce workers, promotes itself as. It may initially appear to be your standard search engine, but it includes an AI-powered "conversation" capability that functions very similarly to the one Microsoft is testing on Bing.

The YouChat chatbot was initially released by You.com in December 2022. According to the business, it is based on the C-A-L paradigm and is "mixed with AI-powered chats, You.com apps, online links, and citations." YouChat's AI is comparable to Microsoft's in that it can build code, compose essays, summarize online pages, and respond to a variety of inquiries with annotated responses.

You.com recently launched built-in AI picture generator models, such as Stable Diffusion 1.5, Stable Diffusion 2.1, and Open Journey, that you can use to produce images based on a given description in addition to providing users with access to an AI-powered chatbot. Along with giving regular results from the web, the search engine also organizes your search results based on pertinent comments on websites like Reddit, TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and YouTube.

Alibaba

The large Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has also embraced the AI chatbot craze. A corporate representative told CNBC in early February that the company is internally testing a Chat-GPT alternative. Since 2017, Alibaba is said to have been experimenting with generative AI, but the business hasn't indicated when it would reveal the tool it's developing or what it could be able to do.

Alibaba could have to overcome certain challenges before starting its own ChatGPT, though. According to a Nikkei Asia story, Chinese officials have previously advised Tencent and Ant Group, who are controlled by Alibaba, to block access to ChatGPT due to worries that the bot may promote restricted content. Before releasing their own bots to the public, the corporations must also consult with the government.

All other Chinese businesses creating AI chatbots will likely be subject to similar regulations, raising the possibility that their products won't ever be allowed to be released or that China's stringent censorship regulations may limit their usefulness.

Baidu

Baidu, a different Chinese corporation, is getting ready to introduce "Ernie Bot," an AI tool, as soon as March. Together with a number of other web-related services including the mapping platform Baidu Maps, the online encyclopedia Baidu Baike, the cloud storage service Baidu Wangpan, and others, Baidu is best known for its search engine of the same name. Also, it is using AI technology to create a self-driving vehicle.

Since its first release in 2019, Ernie—which stands for Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration—has developed into a program that resembles ChatGPT and can provide conversational answers. Late in 2021, Baidu claimed that the model "excels in both natural language understanding (NLU) and generation (NLG)" and that it had been trained on "huge unstructured data and a vast knowledge graph."

Baidu plans to include the chatbot into its search engine, just like Microsoft and Google have done, and will even incorporate the technology into the next electric car produced by Chinese firm Jidu. Baidu is working on a text-to-image model dubbed Ernie ViLG to produce images based on Chinese language in addition to its Chat-GPT-style tool. This model is comparable to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 system and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion's AI image generator.