With all the success Chatgpt has to offer, it's no wonder companies are touting stakes in chatbots, which are expected to reach $5 billion by 2032 and then just $800 million in 2022.
Companies are betting that we are at a tipping point in the AI industry where AI-based products have the potential to transform technology as we know it, not to mention change the hierarchy of big tech companies. Despite the risks, big tech companies don't want to kneel in the AI revolution already underway, although the stakes are high.
While tech giants like Microsoft and Google have released versions of chatbots built with LLMS models, other companies have played down the hype to keep pace with the new age of intelligence we're experiencing.
So today we are going to review the top companies and chatbots that are looking to challenge CHATGPT or succeed:
1- Microsoft Corporation:
The ChatGPT bot helps Microsoft go a step further in the current AI race as it introduces new things to its products almost every day, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on February 7, 2023: “The competition started today, and we're going to get through it a lot. Quickly, we're going to introduce something new.” every day ".
Microsoft announced yesterday that it is integrating ChatGPT technology into its suite of business applications including: Power Platform, which allows users to build applications and workflows for less, and a relationship management (CRM) tool.
Last Thursday, it announced a new update for Windows 11 with a new ping vehicle chat feature built into the operating system's taskbar.
In recent weeks, it has rolled out an updated version of Chatgpt in its ping engine, which promises to change the way we see the Internet, and built AI-powered tools into its EDG. Then, in addition to the integration with the Skype messaging app, I turned on the ping search engine and the mobile Edge browser.
Microsoft is planning to add AI-based improvements to the Edge browser that will allow you to read web pages or documents on the web, compose text through social media platforms, email messages, emails, etc.
Given the speed with which Microsoft has integrated AI capabilities into its products, despite the risks, many believe that Microsoft is the one who planned this current revolution that we are witnessing in the field of artificial intelligence and is trying to overthrow Google's dominance in browsing and Internet searches that eliminate engines.
Microsoft learned this lesson from its experience with a chatbot (TAY) in 2016, when it suspended a 4pm branch from its launch after criticizing the company after the bot began sending racist and offensive messages to post tweets. Microsoft is the reason why users teach a bot to improve reaction because the bot has taken a systematic step to destroy them.
In 2022, Microsoft is relying on Openai to provide Chatgpt bots and after its resounding success, it has increased its investment in (OpenAI) to $10 billion and is now working to bring Chatgpt functionality to almost all of its products.
2- Google:
Microsoft's speed in AI prompted Google to announce its Bard chatbot, which would be its first Android competitor, but it is still being tested with a few trusted labs and has not yet cleared the way for launch. public users.
Google has developed a Bard bot for conversational style queries and inquiries because it works like a chatgpt bot but gets its information from the internet.
Google says it can use Wobot (Bard) for a range of tasks, such as: planning a baby shower, comparing two Oscar-nominated films, and getting recipe ideas based on the ingredients in your fridge.
However, Google's announcement was more serendipitous than Microsoft's announcement that Chatgpt would be included in its ping engine, so much so that Google employees blasted the company in internal messages and reports that Google had lost $100 billion in market value and had lost $100 while it had Market value. one billion. Close to market on February 8, 2023.
3-Meta Corporation:
The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp-Also has targeted the AI market. She developed Galactica, a chatbot that is supposed to help scientists and researchers summarize scientific work, find solutions to mathematical problems and explain (molecules).
🪐 Introducing Galactica. A large language model for science.
— Papers with Code (@paperswithcode) November 15, 2022
Can summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and proteins, and more.
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Meta says he has trained the robot with more than 48 million scientific papers, books, journals, chemicals and other sources of scientific knowledge. However, when the company launched a public beta last November, the bot's results were disappointing. The robot was heavily criticized by the scientific community, with a scientist calling it a dangerous tool because its answers were wrong or biased, and the company withdrawing it only a few days after it was submitted.
The bot (Galactica) isn't the company's first foray into the chatbot market. It also launched last August (BlenderBot 3), a chatbot that can search the internet to talk about almost every topic, so it should act as a digital assistant and respond to user inquiries. Google Assistant also works very well.
But his answer was so bad it's still online, even though he said many bad things about Meta-Ceo Mark Zuckerberg and said all kinds of offensive things.
Meta still has a lot of development potential in the field of artificial intelligence. At the end of February 2023, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company had assembled a dedicated AI team that would finally create “AI characters” that would help people, as well as text-based AI tools for photos and images. Which can be embedded in WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
4- Anthropic:
Anthropic, an AI research firm founded by former Openai employees in 2021, is developing a Chatt Bot competitor called Claude, but has yet to publish it.
Google invested $300 million in Anthropore at the end of 2022. The company developed chatbots with an approach called AI constitutionalism and published a research paper on this approach.
By accessing Claude, the AI data platform scale identified some differences between Claude-Bots and Chatgpt-bots and found that Claud bots can be a strong competitor to Openai Bots and reject inappropriate queries.
However, it does have some drawbacks. Claude Robot can still make some mistakes, for example miscalculation. Currently, Claude Robot is not accessible to the public, it is only available to the company as an early access product.
5-you.com:
The company (you.com) was founded by two former Salesforce employees (Salesforce) to develop a new search engine called (you.com) that uses artificial intelligence to compete in the market with the dominant search engine.
The company claims that you can control it because the search results are displayed as an interactive click. If you trust a source like Stack Overflow for software, BBC News for news, or kelp for site information, you can add them to your search. for you.
At the end of December 2022, the company launched an interactive chat bot called (YouChat) in the search engine (you.com), which can ask for artificial intelligence - similar to chatgpt - in the search engine (you.com) and with it with every conversation topic that enters the the user.
Today, youChat goes live.
— Richard Socher (@RichardSocher) December 23, 2022
Open, broadly capable, conversational AI for search with knowledge of recent events and citations of sources.
Search and chat of the future: https://t.co/kCigs8toTq pic.twitter.com/DGATn6w0fq
Based on the C-A-L language model, Yuckhat-Bot can provide certified answers to various types of queries, generate article abstracts from the Internet, generate code, write articles, and much more, the company said.
6-Alibaba:
The Chinese tech company is having trouble keeping up with Chat — but with caution due to content censorship in China and censorship in particular, e-commerce giant, Alibaba.
At the beginning of February last year, a company spokesperson announced to CNBC that the company had tested Chat. According to reports, Alibaba has been testing AI since 2017, but has no idea when or how it will announce the tools it has developed.
However, Alibaba may have to overcome some hurdles before it can introduce its own version of ChatGPT. A report by Nikkei Asia notes that Chinese supervisory authorities Tencent and Alibaba's ant group have told they should limit access to its versions of chatgpt, because there are concerns that the bot could use non-infringing content.
The company must also consult with the government before releasing its version of the chatbot to the public. Similar rules might apply to any other Chinese company developing interactive chatbots.
7-Baidu
Another Chinese company, Baidu, plans to launch a chatbot (Ernie Bot) in March to use artificial intelligence to improve online search experiences.
We are proud to announce our ongoing development of the AI chatbot project, ERNIE Bot (文心一言). First proposed as a language model in 2019, ERNIE has made significant progress since then.
— Baidu Inc. (@Baidu_Inc) February 7, 2023
Stay tuned for further updates. pic.twitter.com/J1F81VZz5i
Baidu is known for its eponymous search engine, as well as many other Internet-related services such as Baidu Maps, Baidu Bike, Baidu Wangpan, etc., and also uses artificial intelligence technology to develop self-driving cars.
The Ernie bot first appeared in 2019 and the company has since developed it to resemble ChatGPT in that it can generate human-like chat responses. In late 2021, Baidu said it trained the model with unstructured big data and it performed well on both natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG).
Baidu plans to integrate chatbots into its search engine, like Google and Microsoft, and into the user interface of the Chinese company's upcoming electric vehicle.
also; Baidu is also developing a text-to-image tool called Ernie ViLG, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 tool.
8- Character.AI
Character.AI was founded by former Google researchers Daniel de Freitas and Noam Shazer, who helped develop Google's Large Language Model (LaMDA).
Character.AI lets you converse with digital versions of almost anyone, living or dead, real or fictional, such as: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tony Stark. When you talk to these bots, the AI will try to respond in the same way to whoever you want to talk to.
But that's not the only thing the tool can do, as it can help with book recommendations, brainstorm ideas, practice a new language, and more.
9. Other potential competitors:
Aside from companies building autonomous chatbots for online search, there are a few other companies that are using generative AI in slightly different ways.
For example, Snapchat is developing a chatbot called My AI that acts as an in-app version of ChatGPT, allowing users to ask for recipe suggestions or plan a trip.
But it is stricter than ChatGPT because it is trained not to violate Snapchat's trust and safety policies. The coupon is now available to Snapchat Plus subscribers, but the company's CEO, Evan Spiegel, plans to eventually make it available to all users.
Meanwhile, Chinese gaming company NetEase announced that its Youdao subsidiary plans to integrate AI tools into some of its educational products, CNBC reported.
So far, the company has not revealed exactly what these tools will be used for, but it seems that the company is also interested in using AI tools in an upcoming game.