Google announced it has upgraded Bard with multi-language support, visual responses, the ability to export, and new integrations.
In November 2022, ChatGPT was first unleashed by OpenAI. Google (and everyone else) has been playing catch-up ever since.
Google, with its own conversational AI tool, Bard, is now done playing catch-up and is looking to move well beyond the capabilities of ChatGPT. At the Google I/O conference today, multiple updates and innovations were announced to fuel the continued evolution of Bard now and for months to come.
First announced in February, Bard struggled early to gain traction for a host of reasons, not the least of which was the fact that — unlike ChatGPT which is freely and widely available — Bard had a waitlist with limited availability. Google is now removing the waitlist and opening up Bard to a global audience.
Google also announced a series of innovations designed to outpace ChatGPT, including multi-language support, visual responses, the ability to export, and new integrations.
“Large language models have captured the world’s imagination, changing how we think about the future of computing,” Sissie Hsiao, VP and GM of Google Assistant and Bard, said during a Google I/O keynote. “We launched Bard as a limited-access experiment on a lightweight large language model to get feedback and iterate. And since then, the team has been working hard to make rapid improvements and launch them quickly.
