menubar VS ChatALL

been working on https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar for a couple months, but nervous to "launch" it because i feel like it hasn't had a significant "wow" moment yet. basically the idea is to 5x the amount of chat output for every unit of human input, to get variety + familiarity with the wide range of chat models out there. its moved from a "smol menubar app" towards its own "ai chat browser". i wonder if i should put int he work to make it a full "ai browser" before i launch it.

comparing them every day via https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar . i'd say when it comes to coding I pick their suggestions about 30% of the time. not SOTA, but pretty darn good!

fwiw i noticed the demo failing before today's release. i use all 4 major chat apps every single day for every query (https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar) and started detecting a major major regression in bard about a week or so ago. so suspected something was going on, went back to pop in this question and lo and behold

smol-ai/menubar: a menubar with Zero latency access to ChatGPT/Bard/Claude! A/B test them, or use them in the background. I use this 20 times a day. (github.com) It has a customizable URL. But I don't know how to install it. Plus limited to three chatbots.

smol menubar - quickly access ChatGPT, Bard, and Anthropic with a single keyboard shortcut

i think the best way to consume these things is a menubar app that can be brought up quickly with a shortcut. i recently released https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar which i personally use!

smol ai enjoyers may also like my other app https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar/

First of all, I'd like it to be distributed for users to install as a hub running independently from any browser in the background - although with the possibility of accessing it's interface through a browser if necessary. If I'd have to give you some working examples of similar solutions, it would be something like connection of such apps like ChatAll with a service called SAMP that interconnects multiple apps/services provided by ESA CDPP and related to space weather and multiple satellite missions (http://3dview.cdpp.eu) - yup, that's yet another of those weird hobbies of mine :P

Source: ChatALL/wiki

For some reason, software developers and AI experts seem to be focused on achieving multimodality by extending capabilities of individual models and training them on different sets of data - while my plan is to make them work together. Maybe I should try contacting someone responsible for the 'HuggingFace LLM Arena' and propose to add a function that would allow the competing models to speak to each other - I think that it's a quite good way of evaluating model's 'strength'. There are multiple apps and sites that allow user to speak with multiple models simultaneously - ChatAll is a nice example - and I think that allowing all those models to speak with each other is the most obvious function that should be added to such apps...

--> https://github.com/sunner/ChatALL