Google is giving its Bard AI chatbot the premium subscription therapy à la OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus.

The tech big introduced Tuesday in a This fall earnings name that it plans to lock the not too long ago introduced Bard Superior behind a subscription mannequin. There have been no talks about prices or a launch date, however Bard in its present kind is on the market to customers without cost, in comparison with the $20 per 30 days it prices to make use of ChatGPT-4 with a Plus subscription.

In keeping with Google, Bard Superior is designed to be extra “advanced” and have “higher responses.” Will probably be powered by the soon-to-be-released Gemini Extremely, Google’s multimodal massive language mannequin, which is about for an “early 2024” launch. Bard is at present operating on Gemini Professional, which is supposed to compete with GPT-3.5, with Extremely touted by Google as a mannequin that may compete with, and in some instances even surpass, GPT-4.

Primarily based on the hype Google is drumming up for Gemini Extremely, it is speculated that customers can count on to pay an analogous value to OpenAI’s premium tier for an opportunity to make use of this superior generative AI.