👉 Background: When ChatGPT launched at the end of November last year, it took the tech world by storm.

• Uni students found out that the chatbot can do their uni essays
• Tongue-tied brides and grooms used it to write their 'from-the-heart' wedding speeches
• Desperate parking-infringement-victims realised it could write a pretty good appeal for an infringement they have no justification to get out of

👉 What happened: This new AI chatbot and its partnership with Microsoft was billed as a potential giant-killer for Google. But now, Google has announced that it’s working on a competitor to OpenAI called Bard.

👉 What else: It will supposedly answer users’ queries and take part in conversations, but currently it's only available to a group of “trusted testers”. Google’s CEO says that Bard draws on information from the current internet - unlike ChatGPT which is as of 2021.

What's the key learning?

💡With each new product release, the competition between Google and Microsoft only heats up further.

💡They’re head-to-head competing on:

• Productivity suites (G Suite vs Microsoft Office Suite)
  
• Video conferencing (Google Meet vs Microsoft Teams)
• Smart home devices (Google Nest vs Surface Hub)
• Search Engines (Google Search vs Bing)

💡 And now, the competition is set to extend to the field of AI chatbots too. So, the race to create the most advanced, user-friendly, and intuitive AI technology is on, and it's shaping up to be an epic showdown.

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