Google recently unveiled its own AI chatbot called Bard, which uses their new language model Gemini. Gemini comes in three versions - Gemini Small, Gemini Pro and the more advanced Gemini Ultra. Google claims that Gemini Ultra will be on par with GPT-4, OpenAI's latest generation language model that is currently available via subscription.
This raises the question - with a free high-quality alternative from Google now available, is there still a case for paying for GPT-4 access?
The Democratization of Intelligence
There is an argument to be made that Google has made a remarkably savvy move by essentially "democratizing