This isn’t history as I remember it. It’s also not history as the product announcement for bard reads. Bard was explicitly a smaller (cheaper) version of their

This isn’t history as I remember it. It’s also not history as the product announcement for bard reads. Bard was explicitly a smaller (cheaper) version of their model. They always said they had a bigger and better one behind the curtain (now called Gemini I guess). I expected bard to be simpler than ChatGPT because they said it’d be small and simple. I guess that still means it’s disappointing 1:1 though. The notable feature of the model that Bard has over ChatGPT (at least at time of launch) was daily updates keeping it way better for current information and events. Of course, Google has a lot more internal APIs they can/are leverage (eg search, drive, etc) so today bard has a different focus than just talking to a big model.