According to a report by "Russia Today" (RT) on the 9th local time, the Russian IT giant Yandex told RIA Novosti that day that the YandexGPT developed by the company showed greater promise than the large language model ChatGPT launched by the popular American OpenAI company.
The report quoted Dmitry Mayuk, director of Yandex's search and advertising technology business group, as saying that YandexGPT "steadily outperformed" the ChatGPT 3.5 version in generating Russian answers and in many cases "provided answers of higher quality than ChatGPT 4.0." He said it was “only a matter of time” before YandexGPT could compete with its U.S. rivals. Mayuk also believes that YandexGPT has been able to generate better answers than the Llama-2-7b chatbot developed by the American company Meta, even when generating English content.
The report also mentioned that the Russian company Yandex is constantly evaluating the technical progress of its AI products and ChatGPT, and said that it is difficult to compare the two artificial intelligence systems as a whole. "If a neural network that can solve physics problems, write fairy tales, and write letters to the CEO is better in some aspects and slightly worse in other aspects... then is this system (overall) better or worse?" Dmitry Mayuk asked rhetorically.
The report also mentioned that the Russian company Yandex launched a self-developed artificial intelligence system in May this year. This system is designed to create chatbots and artificial intelligence assistants that generate, reorganize or summarize text-based information and complete other tasks. In September this year, the IT giant launched YandexGPT2, an upgraded version of YandexGPT, which it said was capable of handling more task types and providing more precise answers to user-initiated queries.