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Bard received a major update yesterday with a slew of new features and expanded availability. Most notable is the ability to save and pin chats, as well as have multiple conversations, with Bard’s UI being updated to support everything.
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The end result makes Bard look very much like a full-featured app rather than a website designed to house a single conversation. If you squint, this new interface is a stone’s throw away from Google Chat.
To me, the latest additions – consisting of pinned and recent chats, Google Lens integration/upload, text-to-speech, sharing conversations, modifing responses, and third-party integrations in the future – are a further sign that Bard will eventually become a product when it drops the “Experiment” label. (The alternative being that Google is just learning from Bard to improve another product down the road or even the chat experience in Search.)
However, what would Bard look like as a full-featured Google product?
For one thing, I don’t think it will be called “Bard.” It doesn’t fit the company’s penchant for naming that is very literal/descriptive and then putting “Google” in front of it.
