Why there could be a new AI chatbot champ by the time you read this [Video]

OpenAI and Google, two major players in artificial intelligence (AI), continue to fight for model supremacy in the public forum — and the race is rapidly heating up. 

Just a day after OpenAI secured the number one chatbot title in the Chatbot Arena with its GPT-4o update, Google released Gemini Exp 1121, an experimental model that quickly rose to tie with ChatGPT for the top spot. The latest development was announced via an X post on Thursday by the Chatbot Arena’s official account, which noted that large language model (LLM) “progress is now measured in days.” 

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Compared with Gemini’s last release, Exp 1114, the model’s update helped it climb from third to first place overall, and specifically improved in hard prompts, coding, math, and creative writing. Gemini had already been in first place in the vision category. 

The ranking switch-up illustrates the exponential progress of AI developments, especially considering …