Google Gemini vs. ChatGPT

Which LLM currently holds the crown?

- ZAK STOREY

IT’S PROBABLY FAIR TO SAY that without the likes of ChatGPT, our current era of AI fervor wouldn’t be happening. It’s the language model that started the AI rush, the one that brought all manner of business concepts, products, websites, and apps to prominence in our daily lives. AI has been here much longer than that, of course, with the likes of smart speakers converting speech to text, video-gaming PvE encounters, and not forgetting DLSS and supersampling being pivotal examples of it, but it’s the language models that really shook up the ethos. It’s those key LLMs that brought generative AI to the forefront of the human imagination, for better or worse.

Today, we’re putting two of those LLMs under the spotlight: ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Both of them are large language models capable of an insane amount of utility, both are trained on billions upon billions of words, documents, books, and content beyond imagining, and both—at least on the surface—are free to use. So, which one has the edge? Which one out of the two large language models currently holds the LLM crown, and which is the one you should be using?

ChatGPT debuted to the world on November 30 2022, and was built by the OpenAI team. It’s a large language model predominantly built around mimicking human conversation above all else. It’s still capable of the vast array of content creation that generative AI is known for, but the team has prided itself on producing a chatbot that primarily responds in an incredibly similar manner to a human.