• Bard when launched was using one of the PaLM models, which is inferior to GPT-3.5 (the free version of ChatGPT). • Bard since a couple of months ago was usin

• Bard when launched was using one of the PaLM models, which is inferior to GPT-3.5 (the free version of ChatGPT). • Bard since a couple of months ago was using Gemini Pro, which is roughly comparable (a bit worse or better depending on whom you ask) to GPT-3.5. • Bard is now (today) called Gemini, available as "Gemini" and "Gemini Advanced". The former is still comparable to the free version of ChatGPT, and the latter version costs $20/month and uses the "Gemini Ultra" model, and is meant to be roughly comparable to GPT 4 / the paid version of ChatGPT. (Their paper claimed it to be better than GPT 4 on some benchmarks, but real-world usage will show which way it goes — but it should be significantly better than Bard from recently. Edit: See https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/google-gemini-advanced-tasting-notes https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/google-gemini-advanced-tast... from someone who's been using it for six weeks.)