[atemerev]

I don't understand this "slow rollout" thing about OpenAI competition. The chat / instruction models are continuously fine-tuned on real dialogues. To get these dialogues en masse, you need to deploy models to wide public. Otherwise, you will forever be on the losing side, if you can't quickly grab the streams of real time human-generated content.

People at OpenAI are smart, they understood that quickly, GPT-4 is available nearly everywhere, and lesser models are even free for anyone to use. This required hiring huge teams of moderators, but we are at land grab stage, everyone in the business needs to move fast and break a lot of things. However, GPT-4 and open source models are the only thing I can use. Bard "is not available in my country" (Switzerland), and the first thing that Claude access form is asking is whether I am based in US.

Well, their loss.

[dataangel]

It's probably the GPUs, they don't have enough capacity to handle more users. My guess is that GPT4 set off a buying spree. Even for CPUs, I've recently heard lead times for Sapphire Rapids servers are 2-3 months, high end switches 6 months, and those probably have way less demand.

[s3p]

I think it's cloud limitations. Anthropic probably doesn't have the ability to scale up extremely fast and accomodating hundreds of millions of users probably isn't as easy for them as it is for OpenAI.

[williamcotton]

If they are resource constrained and then opened up the flood gates resulting in poor performance and timeouts for every user it seems like it would sour more milk than otherwise.

[nl]

Is Bard still unavailable?

It was unavailable to Australia until last week but was made more widely available at Google I/O.

It's pretty good, too!

[atemerev]

Still unavailable here in Switzerland.