ZDNET’s key takeaways

• You.com’s premium subscription tier, YouPro, prices $20 monthly or $15 monthly if billed yearly. 
• With the subscription, customers get to reap the benefits of the free perks, similar to entry to the web and footnotes, and probably the most superior massive language fashions (LLMs) from OpenAI, Google, and extra. 
• There isn’t any option to evaluate LLM efficiency on YouPro to the efficiency of a mannequin on its native platform. 

You.com, previously YouChat, provides aggressive options which have earned it a spot on ZDNET’s checklist of finest AI chatbots. I attempted its premium tier, YouPro, which left me much more impressed than I used to be with the free model. 

In the event you checklist the very best options of each main AI chatbot in the marketplace, together with ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Copilot, and put them collectively, you will get YouPro. That is a daring declare, so I will clarify. 

Each free and paid variations of You.com give customers entry to the web, which is already a serious win over ChatGPT or Claude, which have information cutoffs. Along with web entry, You.com customers have entry to footnotes that hyperlink to the net supply of its solutions — probably the greatest options of Copilot. 

With YouPro, customers can entry the game-changing function of AI modes, the place customers can toggle between totally different modes throughout the chatbot to have totally different search experiences. 

The modes embrace Good, which can also be out there to free customers; Genius, which has superior capabilities, together with file uploads; Analysis, which because the title implies is tailor-made for in-depth evaluation; Create, which may generate photos from texts; and at last, the pièce de résistance, the Customized Mannequin Selector. 

With the Customized Mannequin Selector, customers can simply toggle between main AI fashions together with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo; Anthropic’s Claude Immediate, Claude 2, Claude 3 Opus, Clause 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku; Google’s Gemini Professional; and Zephyr (uncensored).  

Many of those fashions are usually reserved for every firm’s premium subscribers. For instance, GPT-4 is just out there for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, Claude 3 Opus is just out there for Claude Professional subscribers, and Gemini Professional is just out there for Google One AI Premium Plan subscribers. 

All three of the subscriptions above are $20 a month every. Nonetheless, all of these superior AI fashions could be discovered on YouPro for one fee of $20 a month. 

To see how nicely the Customized Mannequin Selector labored, I entered the identical immediate into three totally different fashions on the location — GPT-4, Gemini Professional, and Claude 3 Opus, as seen within the picture beneath (increase to see the complete response):

The outcomes have been reassuring as a result of each mannequin generated responses with totally different types and codecs, an indicator {that a} totally different AI mannequin was used to generate every reply. 

There isn’t any option to inform if the outcomes generated by every mannequin on YouPro are on par with outcomes generated on the mannequin’s native premium platform as a result of generative AI fashions yield totally different outputs each time, even on the identical platform.

It is also value noting that when you choose a special mannequin, the display reads, “Chat utilizing [insert name of the model you chose], enhanced with You.com AI.” The final a part of the assertion suggests your expertise utilizing the mannequin on YouPro would possibly differ from the native platform.

ZDNET’s recommendation

If you wish to experiment with the most recent massive language fashions with out breaking the financial institution, YouPro is a superb resolution. With one $20-a-month subscription, you possibly can entry the most recent fashions from giants like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft. 

Nonetheless, when you discover one premium subscription you want and revel in integrating the AI into your workflow, I might stick along with your favourite as a result of there is no assure your expertise would be the similar on YouPro.