Google has enhanced its ChatGPT competitor, Bard, by integrating it more deeply with YouTube. This update aims to provide users with a more immersive experience when watching YouTube videos. Bard’s extension for the video platform has been upgraded, enabling it to better comprehend YouTube videos and respond to inquiries related to them.
With this feature, users can quickly request summaries or background information about a YouTube video, such as specific details from a cooking video’s recipe. This feature is currently in the experimental phase and requires Bard’s YouTube extension to function.
In September, Google unveiled this extension as part of a broader update to integrate Bard with numerous Google products, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Google Maps, and Google Flights. The goal was to enable the chatbot to quickly access user data and respond to a variety of queries.
Bard is Google parent Alphabet’s response to ChatGPT, the well-liked chatbot created by OpenAI. Bard’s European debut was delayed due to GDPR concerns raised by the Irish Data Protection Commission, but it eventually entered the EU’s 450 million-strong market in July.
Meanwhile, a new AI competitor called Inflection-2 has emerged to compete against the numerous large language models (LLMs) on the market.
Inflection, the company behind this AI, claims that its model is currently the second most capable LLM in the world, outperforming other models like Meta’s Llama-2, Google’s PaLM-2, X’s Grok-1, and OpenAI’s GPT-4.
Inflection stated that it evaluated its model on a diverse range of tasks and that it was the best-performing model outside of GPT-4. The company intends to use this LLM to power its own AI chatbot called Pi.
“This is a significant step forward in our goal to develop a personal AI for everyone, and we are thrilled about the new capabilities that Inflection-2 will bring to Pi,” Inflection said in a blog post.
“We express our gratitude to our partners Nvidia, Microsoft, and CoreWeave for their collaboration and support in establishing our AI cluster, which made the training of Inflection-1 and Inflection-2 possible.”
