Google Bard Advanced, the corporate’s upcoming generative synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot, has been confirmed to get a paid subscription mannequin. Google made the announcement throughout its This fall 2023 earnings name however didn’t disclose pricing particulars or a potential launch date. Google’s AI chatbot was first introduced in early 2023 as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot (previously generally known as Bing Chat). At the time of the announcement, it was powered by the tech big’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), and later by the Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2).
However, in December 2023, Google unveiled its newest AI mannequin Gemini and claimed it to be the corporate’s “largest and most capable AI model.” It got here in three variations. Gemini Nano is for on-device performances and is presently accessible on Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. Gemini Pro is the usual AI mannequin able to a big selection of duties together with multimodal functionality and it subsequently changed PaLM 2 to energy Google Bard chatbot. The strongest model, Gemini Ultra, has now been confirmed to energy Google Bard Advanced.
Unlike Gemini Nano and Gemini Pro, Gemini Ultra is supposed for extremely advanced duties, multimodal assist, and even the creation of chatbots. Google claimed that the AI mannequin outperformed each GPT-4 in addition to human specialists on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark for textual content outputs with a 90 % rating (GPT-4 obtained 86.4 %).
Google has not shared any pricing particulars, launch date, or the options that may include Google Bard Advanced. However, its specialization, it’s anticipated to be an enterprise instrument. As such, Google may bundle it with its Workspace subscription. One report additionally claimed that the upcoming AI assistant could be linked with Google One subscription based mostly on the code on the Google Bard web site.
Predicting the potential pricing is a trickier activity given the complete suite of options stays unknown. But trying on the pattern, well-liked AI chatbots corresponding to ChatGPT Plus, Copilot Pro, and Claude Pro all fetch a price ticket between $10 (roughly Rs. 800) and $20 (roughly Rs. 1,650) a month. If Google follows the identical pattern, that is the place Bard Advanced must be positioned as properly. However, it may be costlier if the tech big decides to add one in all its under-testing AI fashions corresponding to Vertex AI (for picture technology), MusicLM (for music technology), or Lumiere (for text-to-video and image-to-video technology) together with the subscription.
