Google finally releases the competitor to ChatGPT to the wider public in a move that will challenge OpenAI and others within the tech industry. The information was announced at the Google I/O conference yesterday along with a set of other AI-related announcements which will benefit the overall industry.
This move will ensure that Google stays competitive in the changing AI landscape that is just beginning to heat up.
In a blog post further adding more details on the chatbot, Sisse Hsiao, Vice president, and GM for Assistant and Bard at Google, states that, “As we continue to make additional improvements and introduce new features, we want to get Bard into more people’s hands so they can try it out and share their feedback with us. So today we’re removing the waitlist and opening up Bard to over 180 countries and territories — with more coming soon,” she wrote.
Google’s Bard AI chatbot is now available in English, Korean, and Japanese. The chatbot is equipped with PaLM 2, a new language model with improved multilingual reasoning and coding capabilities capable of supporting more than 100 languages.
John Krawczyk, senior product director at Google and one of the leads on Bard, announced at a press event ahead of the conference that they will be rolling out additional languages soon.
“We’re excited to bring Bard to more people around the world,” said Krawczyk. “We believe that Bard has the potential to be a powerful tool for communication, education, and creativity.”
Google also announced that it will soon add even more features to provide even more value for users. They will use multimodal content which allows the chatbots to provide more than just textual answers.
Overall, this is a very important move for the AI space that is going through a revolutionary moment for those within the space. Surely, this level of competition will surely be great for the industry and push others to innovate.
