Copilot is the brand name for all of Microsoft’s generative chatbot services, which include its search engine, coding assistant and chatbot. It uses OpenAI’s GPT model, which Microsoft integrated shortly after investing $10 billion into the startup. Copilot started out in the Bing browser, providing generative AI answers to search queries. This led to increased downloads and usage of Bing’s browser, causing Google to work on its own form of AI search integration in the form of Gemini ov...| Business of Apps
Lensa AI is a photo editing app which has shot up in popularity due to the launch of its Magic Avatars, which use a generative image system to create unique digital avatars based on selfies uploaded to the app. Users upload 10 to 20 selfies to the app and for $7.99 Lensa will create a pack of 50 images, with various art styles and backgrounds. The app also offers retouching and other editing services, with subscription fees starting at $35.99 for a year of access. Magic Avatars have drawn in ...| Business of Apps
Google Gemini is a chatbot developed by Google as a director competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Using all of the power and capabilities of Google in artificial intelligence and search, it has been quickly embedded into almost all Google products. Launched in March 2023 as Bard, the chatbot did not have the best start to public life. Within hours, users had found lots of embarrassing holes in the technology, from the typical hallucinations to racist image results. Google has ridden the criticis...| Business of Apps
Character.ai is one of the many AI chatbots to explode in popularity, as the success of ChatGPT has led millions of people to find alternative chatbots offering different experiences. In character.ai’s case, it has built a library of personalities, each with their own distinct way of interacting with users. This can come in the form of a purpose, such as a trip planner or language teacher, a famous dead person such as Albert Einstein or Elvis Presley, or as an interactive story, like a dete...| Business of Apps
Artificial intelligence has taken over the app world, with thousands of apps integrating AI and the top AI app developers receiving hundred billion dollar valuations. Generative AI, in the form of intelligent chatbots, AI-enabled search engines and image creators have been the focus of significant public attention since 2023, leading more companies to invest heavily in AI innovation. OpenAI made waves with its GPT-powered chatbot ChatGPT, which launched in November 2022 and gained 100 million...| Business of Apps
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, setting a record for the fastest app to reach a 100 million users, which it hit in two months. The implications of this tool are far-reaching, universities around the world scrambled for a way to detect ChatGPT in submitted essays, entire divisions of companies shifted priority to learning how to interact with the chatbot, and all of the tech giants refocused efforts around AI. For those unaware, ChatGPT is a chatbot launched by OpenAI, a research laborat...| Business of Apps
The hunt for the next evolution of the search engine has been ongoing for over a decade, but nothing has been able to even nudge Google’s dominance. The latest attempt and by far the most conceivable alternative is generative AI chatbots, which take all of the relevant links and data from the web and simplify it to a single answer. Perplexity is one of these chatbots aiming to be the next Google. Launched in August 2022, Perplexity was one of the first to use up-to-date data from the web, a...| Business of Apps
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.| huggingface.co
