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At the end of November, it'll be one year since ChatGPT was first made public, rapidly

accelerating the artificial intelligence arms race. And a lot has changed over the course of 10 months.

In just the past few weeks, both OpenAI and Google have introduced big new features to their

AI chatbots. And Meta, Facebook's parent company, is jumping in the ring, too, with its own public-facing chatbots.

I mean, we learned about one of these news updates just minutes before recording this episode

of Tech Quickly, the version of Scientific American's Science Quickly podcast that keeps you

updated on the lightning fast advances in AI. I'm Sophie Bushwick,

tech editor at Scientific American. And I'm Lauren Leffert, Tech Reporting Fellow.

So what are these new features that these AI models are getting? Let's start with multimodality. Public versions of both

OpenAI's chat GPT and Google's Bard can now interpret and respond to image and audio prompts,

not just text. You can speak to the chatbots, kind of like the Siri feature on an iPhone, and get an

AI-generated audio reply back.

You can also feed the bot's pictures, drawings, or diagrams, and ask for information about all those visuals and get a text response.

That is awesome. How can people get access to this?

Right now, Google's version is free to use, while OpenAI is currently limiting its new feature to premium subscribers who pay $20 a month.

And multimodality is a big change, right? When I say large language model, that used to just mean

text and text only. Yeah, it's a really good point. Chat TPT and Bard were initially built to

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