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But Google hasn't disclosed which version of Bard, right?

I pop into Bard every once in a while to test its performance, but I never know if I'm getting the best Google has or just what Google can tolerate running cost-wise publicly given they potentially have at least an order of magnitude (if not two, edit: 1.5) more users than OpenAI.

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I am sure that Bard has far fewer users than OpenAI.

Oh absolutely, I'm just imagining what I might think if I was a super conservative director at Google who is accountable for the balance sheet of a large org.

If that were the case you’d be too busy fighting over head count, trying to hit the VP rung, and internal empire building to do any actual work.

Sundar Pichai:

> We’ve been rapidly evolving Bard. It now supports a wide range of programming capabilities, and it’s gotten much smarter at reasoning and math prompts. And, as of today, it is now fully running on PaLM 2.

So yes, Bard uses PaLM 2 now. No longer the small LaMDA model it used before. It's a completely different thing now.

Given that ChatGPT has allegedly 100M users, two orders of magnitude more than that would be larger than the global population. Even if we count everyone with a Google account as a potential user of PaLM, that can't be true.

Ah yeah, I had the outdated 30M in my head.

chat gpt had 100m users in feb. safe to assume it has at least 2-5xed since

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