Five chatbots compared

Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, … Read more

Google’s fireworks of new tools and features

As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, … Read more

Google embarrasses itself with Gemini’s political correctness

We reported on Google’s AI offensive under the “Gemini” banner, but soon after, it was the integrated image generator that made the headlines: It had apparently been steered too much in favor of diversity. What is generally a good idea makes no sense if, for example, you want a picture of the “founding fathers” of … Read more

Many updates for Google Gemini

Google has visibly accelerated AI development. At the same time, the company is unifying its activities under the “Gemini” brand. The ChatGPT competitor Google Bard is now called Google Gemini and the proprietary AI models are also called Gemini. Until now, Google’s chatbot used the “Gemini Pro” AI model, but now “Gemini Ultra” is also … Read more