GIGA CHAT – SCI & TECH
News:
Russia's Sberbank releases ChatGPT rival GigaChat
What's in the news?
● Russian lender Sberbank
had released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an
invite-only testing mode, joining the artificial intelligence chatbot race.
Key takeaways:
● The
release last year of ChatGPT, a chatbot
from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, has caused a sprint in the
technology sector to put AI into more users' hands. The hope is to reshape how
people work and win business in the process.
Unique from ChatGPT:
● Sberbank
said what sets GigaChat apart was its ability
to communicate more intelligently in Russian than other foreign neural networks.
Features:
● Multimodal
Chat
● Intelligent
Communication in Russian
● Customizable
Analytics Tool
What can GigaChat do?
● Numerous
reports suggest that GigaChat can answer questions, hold conversations, write
program code to develop software, and even generate images.
● GigaChat
has been reportedly developed as a multimodal
tool with prospects for adding video, audio and more capabilities in the
future.