Google-backed Anthropic releases Claude chatbot across Europe

Google-backed Anthropic releases Claude chatbot across Europe

LONDON, May 14 ― Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, which is backed by Alphabet’s Google and Amazon.com, said it would release its generative AI chatbot Claude across Europe today. Why it’s important Anthropic’s Claude is a direct competitor to Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that broke records when it reached 100 million monthly active users just … Read more

Baidu says AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has attracted 200 million users

Baidu says AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has attracted 200 million users

HONG KONG, April 16 ― China’s Baidu said today its artificial intelligence chatbot “Ernie Bot” has garnered more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain China’s most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasingly fierce competition. The number of users has roughly doubled since the company’s last update in December. The chatbot was released to … Read more

Musk’s xAI to launch improved version of chatbot

Musk’s xAI to launch improved version of chatbot

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an enhanced version of its chatbot Grok. The new version, called Grok-1.5, will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in the coming days, xAI said … Read more

Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini, rolls out paid subscription

Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini, rolls out paid subscription

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 8 — Google today renamed its Bard chatbot after the new artificial intelligence that is powering it, called Gemini, and said consumers can pay for better reasoning capabilities as it vies with Microsoft to win subscriptions. US customers can subscribe for US$19.99 (RM95) a month to access Gemini Advanced, which includes a … Read more

Amazon releases AI chatbot called ‘Q’

Amazon releases AI chatbot called ‘Q’

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 — Amazon yesterday released its own AI chatbot intended for businesses, about one year after ChatGPT took the world by storm. “Q” will be available only to Amazon’s AWS cloud computing customers and will be in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT as well as Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s copilots that also run … Read more

Musk teases AI chatbot ‘Grok’, with real-time access to X

Musk teases AI chatbot ‘Grok’, with real-time access to X

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 5 — Elon Musk yesterday unveiled details of his new AI tool called “Grok”, which can access X in real time and will be initially available to the social media platform’s top tier of subscribers. Musk, the tycoon behind Tesla and SpaceX, said the link-up with X, formerly known as Twitter, is … Read more