Google’s recently launched conversational AI chatbot Bard has made astonishing progress up the prestigious LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard after being updated with Google’s new powerful Gemini Pro multimodal model. Bard overtook GPT-4 for the second position on the leaderboard, putting it hot on the heels of the longtime occupant of the top spot, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo.
Bard’s sudden and remarkable rise poses a serious threat to OpenAI’s utter dominance in the red-hot chatbot technology space. The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard was created by LMSYS Org, a top AI research consortium founded by UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon, as a rigorous benchmark to assess and compare large language models through anonymous, randomized conversational battles judged by crowdsourcing.
OpenAI’s GPT models, especially the GPT-4 Turbo, have firmly gripped the top spots on this leaderboard as well as many other benchmarks for quite some time now. However, powered by Google’s brand new Gemini Pro model, Bard has shattered expectations with an incredulous jump that demonstrates its rapid improvement curve. This poses an intimidating challenge to OpenAI’s stronghold as the leader in this field.
Google unveiled its powerful new Gemini family of models in December 2022, starting with the initial Pro version that now powers Bard. Google has warned that an even more staggeringly capable Gemini Ultra model is set for an upcoming release. Bard’s recent vault up the competitive leaderboard is a reflection of the immense progress Google has achieved through aggressive iteration of its AI capabilities in order to catch up to OpenAI.
As Google continues to enhance Bard with new tricks from its Gemini bag, further closing the gap with OpenAI’s best chatbots, expect an even more thrilling neck-to-neck rivalry between these two AI giants at the cutting edge of conversational technology. For now, OpenAI still retains the pole position, but Google seems more determined than ever to claim the chatbot crown jewel.