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Butterflies wants to let users create AI personas that then take on their own lives and coexist with others. 

Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist

OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.

How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans

Social network X is rolling out access to xAI’s Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more paid users last month. The company said…

X makes Grok chatbot available to premium subscribers

Grok-1.5 appears to be a measurable upgrade over its predecessor, Grok-1 — at least judging by the published benchmark results and specs.

X’s Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5

This week, Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google, Amazon and a who’s who of VCs and angel investors, released a family of models — Claude 3 — that it…

We tested Anthropic’s new chatbot — and came away a bit disappointed

Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a few days’ delay, the company began to…

Amazon’s new Rufus chatbot isn’t bad — but it isn’t great, either

If it wasn’t clear before that Google’s Gemini chatbot was rushed out the door, it is now. Gemini’s since-removed image generator put people of color in Nazi-era uniforms. The chatbot’s…

Gemini on Android can’t ID songs, and it’s frustrating

People are more likely to do something if you ask nicely. That’s a fact most of us are well aware of. But do generative AI models behave the same way?…

Treating a chatbot nicely might boost its performance — here’s why

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We tested Google’s Gemini chatbot — here’s how it performed

Gemini, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, is here. Is it any good? While it’s a solid option for research and productivity, it stumbles in obvious — and some not-so-obvious — places. Last week, Google rebranded its Bard chatbot to Gemini and brought Gemini — which confusingly shares…

We tested Google’s Gemini chatbot — here’s how it performed

Google announced today that its Bard chatbot is now powered by the Gemini Pro model globally with support for more than 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi,…

Google’s Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help…

It sure looks like X (Twitter) has a Verified bot problem

Surveys have become an integral part of many aspects of our lives, but most of them are tedious, leading to ineffective responses and actions. Dinghan Shen and Yuan Xue, two…

Backed by Cresta founders, Trove’s AI wants to make surveys fun again

Grok, a ChatGPT competitor developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has officially launched on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Grok began rolling out late this afternoon to…

X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers

This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products and services including Bard, Google’s ChatGPT competitor. In…

Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening teasing the…

Musk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok

The availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has made it easier for developers to make chatbots. Large companies such as OpenAI, Google and Microsoft have made ChatGPT, Bard and Bing…

Luzia lands $10 million in funding to expand its WhatsApp-based chatbot

Meta is launching a tool called AI Studio, which will let businesses build custom chatbots to run on its various messaging apps.

Meta debuts AI Studio to let developers build custom chatbots

Uber’s AI chatbot will help users find restaurant deals and reorder favorites on the app. Available in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada.

Uber Eats to launch Google-powered chatbot in late 2023

Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, today announced the launch of its first consumer-facing premium subscription plan, Claude Pro, for Claude 2 — Anthropic’s AI-powered, text-analyzing chatbot. For…

Anthropic launches a paid plan for its AI-powered chatbot

There’s no shortage of chatbot services trying to earn a place in the myriad channels on Discord and Slack. California-based Gleen, founded by Microsoft and LinkedIn veterans, is offering its…

Gleen’s tech-savvy chatbot for Discord and Slack attracts Solana founder in oversubscribed round

Update: The custom instructions option has reportedly disappeared for some users. We’re looking into it, but in the meantime don’t be surprised if the function isn’t available to you right…

OpenAI launches customized instructions for ChatGPT

Bing Chat, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot experience, is heading to the enterprise. At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise, a version of Bing Chat with business-focused data privacy…

Microsoft brings Bing Chat to the enterprise

Google is making its ChatGPT rival Bard available to a wider audience today, launching the generative AI chatbot in more than 40 languages and finally bringing it to the European…

Google’s Bard chatbot finally launches in the EU, now supports more than 40 languages

ChatGPT might’ve captured the world’s attention. But DeepMind, the Google-owned research lab, claims that its next large language model will rival — or even best — OpenAI’s. According to a…

DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT

Bard, Google’s beleaguered AI-powered chatbot, is slowly improving at tasks involving logic and reasoning. That’s according to a blog post published today by the tech giant, which suggests that —…

Google claims that Bard is improving at math and programming

OpenAI has announced in a tweet that the official ChatGPT mobile app is now available in more countries. When OpenAI first unveiled its mobile app last week, the app was…

The official ChatGPT app is now available in 11 more countries

Amorai is creating an AI relationship coach but the startup isn’t sharing what it could look like, and an AI expert isn’t sure it would work.

Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers

The generative AI world is evolving so rapidly that every few days we see startups rolling out new applications powered by large language models (LLMs). The latest attempt to monetize…

AI assistants come to Alibaba and a16z-backed Cider

The company behind the popular iPhone customization app Brass, sticker maker StickerHub and others is out today with a new AI chat app called Superchat, which allows iOS users to…

Superchat’s new AI chatbot lets you message historical and fictional characters via ChatGPT

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to…

OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet