AI race: The expanding list of serious competitors to ChatGPT
Christopher Hutton
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The market is quickly expanding as many tech companies try to compete with Google and OpenAI in the artificial intelligence race with their chatbots.
Microsoft, through OpenAI and its ChatGPT, and Google, with its Bard chatbot, have begun a race to develop the strongest chatbot, one that could innovate with the hope of market control. However, they are not the only ones trying to get into the business of offering chatbots or AI programs. Several other companies are launching chatbots, ones meant to help coders, allow users to role-play as historical characters, or assist in managing Slack messages.
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Here are the companies bringing AI to their businesses.
Slack
Salesforce, the owner of Slack, announced on Thursday that it was launching an in-app service known as “SlackGPT,” which uses AI-powered software to assist users with managing the app. It will be able to write custom messages in appropriate tones, summarize a thread, or take notes during a call. The company intends to launch the feature next year, according to CNBC, but it did not set a date for when.
Amazon
Amazon Web Services announced its large language model in April. The model would come in two variations, known as Titan and Bedrock. One will generate text, while the other will help power web search personalization for users.
The company also released CodeWhisperer, an AI bot that helps developer double-check their code, check for errors and send it back with analysis. The product is available for free.
Meta AI
The Facebook parent company has begun expanding its investments into AI as a whole. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on April 26 that the company sees “an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful.” The company is exploring the addition of chatbots within the multiple messaging services that it operates, although it remains unclear when these services will be released.
Anthropic
The A.I.-focused startup founded by ex-OpenAI employees launched its own chatbot, named Claude, in March. The bot can perform similar tasks to ChatGPT but is “much less likely to produce harmful outputs,” “easier to converse with,” and “more steerable,” according to the company. It also was allegedly trained to avoid “sexist, racist, and toxic outputs,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch. The software is used to assist DuckDuckGo with answering direct search queries.
Character.AI
A chatbot developed by former Google engineers, Character.AI was designed specifically to imitate and role-play historical figures. The bot allows users to request to chat with historical figures such as William Shakespeare and some fictional characters. The product was launched in September 2022 but is still in beta.
Open Source
A surprising source of competition to giant corporations has arisen. A collective of open-source AI developers is answering several of the problems that larger companies are confronting.
“Open-source models are faster, more customizable, more private, and pound-for-pound more capable,” wrote a group of Google developers in a leaked document. The engineers claimed that Bard and ChatGPT have a “slight edge” in quality but that this edge will close very soon.
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The AI industry is getting closer scrutiny from lawmakers as products like Bard and ChatGPT become more prominent. The White House announced on Thursday that it was meeting with experts in the AI industry and launching several new initiatives to empower innovation and determine the safety risks connected to the technology.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced he is working on legislation with experts that would regulate AI in a manner acceptable to Republicans and Democrats. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) also introduced legislation to create a task force investigating AI policies and their impact on civil liberties.