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Free version currently offers access to GPT-3.5 and “limited” access to GPT-4o |
LLM-powered chat. |
Plugins available with ChatGPT Plus. Enterprise features listed here.
DALL-E 3 (text to image generation), web browsing with Bing, and image inputs available through Plus and Enterprise plans.
As of Fall 2023, ChatGPT can select the best tool (DALL-E 3, browsing, etc) for a task.
As of Sept.2023, can browse the internet for up-to-date information (for Plus/Enterprise).
As of May 2024, GPT-4o “accepts as input any combination of text, audio, image, and video and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs”
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User inputs can be used to train models unless you opt out in settings. See Jisc evaluation.
Ranked highest for producing copyrighted outputs by Patronus AI’s CopyrightCatcher |
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Pricing: contact sales |
“a version of ChatGPT built for universities to responsibly deploy AI to students, faculty, researchers, and campus operations.”
Powered by GPT-4o |
Can build custom GPTs and share within university workspaces
Data analytics, web browsing, document summarization
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Inputs not used to train OpenAI models |
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“A comprehensive family of out-of-the box and customizable APIs and scenario-based services to help developers and organizations rapidly create intelligent, cutting-edge, market-ready, responsible solutions” - AI Services description. Access to OpenAI models, including GPT-4. |
Conversational AI, content creation, data grounding (analyze your data). See Microsoft’s sample use cases here. |
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(Previously Bing Chat/Bing Chat Enterprise; rebranded 11/2023.) |
Free version on microsoft.copilot.com
Copilot Pro $20/user/month
Available in sidebar in Microsoft Edge
Available with educational licenses with commercial data protection
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LLM-powered chat. Previously marketed as Bing Chat, and Bing is still a part of Copilot. Conversational search, summarized answers from web, ask follow up questions, use as a “creative tool” to generate content. Includes Image Creator: text to image generation.
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Copilot available in Edge sidebar has conversational search, text and image generation, can summarize pdfs and website content.
Copilot (free version) provides access to GPT-4 and 4 Turbo except during peak times. Can create images, use on the web, access to plug-ins and GPTs
Copilot Pro gives priority access to GPT-4 and 4 Turbo during peak times, can be used in number of Microsoft 365 apps, and create images faster with DALL-E 3 |
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In comparing Bing Chat, Bard, and ChatGPT, Nielsen Norman Group found that Bing Chat had lower trustworthiness and helpfulness scores than the other two (Oct. 2023). |
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Eligible licenses: E3, E5, Business Standard, Business Premium, A3, A5.
$30/user/month (annual commitment) |
LLM-powered (including GPT-4) integration for 365 apps (Teams, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, and others).
In late April 2024 Copilot will be available in OneDrive. |
Example use cases: producing written content (text, emails in Outlook), summarization (including of email threads), data visualization, give commands to apps, etc.
New education-specific features release June 2024: teaching content generation, student feedback generation, interactive practice experiences
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User inputs not used to train models. See Jisc evaluation. |
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Google Gemini (formerly Bard) |
1.0 Pro model free, 1.0 Ultra model (Gemini Advanced) $19.99/month. Gemini for Business can also be added to Workspace plan. |
Three multimodal models: Pro, Ultra,, and Nano (latter for mobile phones). All are pre-trained on text, image, audio, video, codebases. |
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Claude, Anthropic |
Free with usage limitations, or upgrade to Claude Pro for $20/month. |
LLM-powered chat. API available.
Claude 3 family (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus models) released March 2024. Claude 3.5 Sonnet released June 2024. |
Good for: complex reasoning, creativity, dialogue, coding, content creation.
Can upload files to be read, analyzed, summarized.
Can analyze inputted data in large amounts
Artifacts feature released with 3.5 Sonnet: a workspace alongside chat where AI-generated content can be edited and integrated into user’s work. See here for analysis of this feature. |
User inputs not used to train models unless user opts in. See Jisc evaluation.
Good for long prompts (up to 100,000 tokens, approx. 75,000 words - Claude 2)
Uses second model “Constitutional AI” to improve safety of outputs.
When evaluated (Claude 2.1) with Patronus AI’s CopyrightCatcher, produced less copyrighted outputs than other major LLMs |
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Llama 2, Meta |
Download for free on their website
Integrated into Microsoft’s Azure platform and Windows through Meta-Microsoft partnership. |
Collection of LLMs developed by Meta. Llama 2-Chat LLMs are fine-tuned for dialogue use cases. |
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While often claimed to be open source, the Open Source Initiative claims it is not. |
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Code available for public non-commercial use.
Free demo. |
Open-source chatbot, trained by fine-tuning LLaMA model on 70k user-shared conversations collected from shareGPT.com. |
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Open source |
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In development. Key architectural components already developed are published on website with paper and code available. |
Aims to create a foundational model for science, for “numerical datasets and scientific machine learning tasks,” that scientists can then fine-tune for their specific applications. Foundational model will have strong knowledge for shared general concepts across science. |
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Potential to be more effective for specific scientific tasks than generalist models. |
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Free |
“Goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.” |
Convert text (to more/less formal), judge tone of text, create task list, etc. |
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Poe, Quora |
$19.99/month, $200/year
Enterprise version being prepared, waitlist here |
Aims to be “web browser for AI chatbots,” a chatbot platform where you can access numerous models including GPT-4, Claude, Llama 2 |
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Paying one subscription fee to access multiple models vs subscribing to different models
Web, desktop, and mobile apps.
API available |
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Will release code. On Hugging Face: dataset, alpha reward model, alpha language model. |
LLM trained by UC Berkeley researchers with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback |
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HuggingChat, Hugging Face |
Free open source |
LLM chat |
Feb 2024 launched HuggingChat Assistants, which allows users to create their own customizable chatbots, rivals OpenAI’s GPTs |
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Purchasing Model |
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Key Features |
Pros |
Limitations |
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OLMo-7B, Allen Institute for AI |
Free open source |
LLM, About |
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Model, pre-training data, and training code all openly available on Hugging Face |
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Open models, most recently Mixtral 8x7B (Apache 2.0 license)
Optimized commercial models: Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Mistral Embed. Mistral Large: more powerful + costly than Small. Embed for semantic search and RAGs.
Access via la Plateforme (Mistral AI’s infrastructure in Europe) or Large is also available via Microsoft Azure. Can also try out Small or Large using Mistral’s free chat interface, Le Chat. |
Small, Large, and Mixtral 8x7B are fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and strong in code. Embed only English. |
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Pi, Inflection AI
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As of March 2024, Inflection 2.5 hosted on Microsoft Azure, following Inflection AI co-founders moving to Microsoft. |
Chatbot designed to be “empathetic, helpful, and safe”. Runs on in-house model, latest version Inflection-2.5 released March 2024
After co-founder departure March 2024, Inflection AI said it would pivot towards “AI studio business”
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Has real-time web search capabilities
As of March 2024, API will be available soon |
Was available through desktop app, pi.ai website, iOS or Android, and as of March 2024, Inflection 2.5 hosted on Microsoft Azure, following Inflection AI co-founders moving to Microsoft.
Claims Inflection-2.5 “approaches GPT-4’s performance, but used only 40% of the amount of compute for training.” |
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AI features integrated into Apple products (iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia), ChatGPT integrated into Apple’s Siri and writing tools |
See here for more on features (Math Notes, Smart Script) that could have uses in higher ed, especially for students |
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