Bard's multimodal abilities are impressive. It's worth noting that PaLM 2 does not offer multimodal capabilities, and your experience here, as you suggested, likely leans on Google's long history of building search across both text and image data.

In a reasoning and creativity shootout, I'm not convinced Palm 2 (and Bard) fairs well against Claude v2 and GPT-3.5.

Is anybody aware of Palm 2 being used in production other than with Bard? I see companies building and deploying with Claude* but have yet to come across Palm 2 users.

* I've fielded several requests to add Claude 2 API support to Zep, an open source memory store I co-authored. https://github.com/getzep/zep