Google announced today that its Bard chatbot is now powered by the Gemini Pro model globally with support for greater than 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
In December, Google launched its latest generative AI models with flagship Gemini Ultra, “lite” Gemini Pro and Gemini Nano, which is designed to run on devices just like the Pixel 8. At the identical time, the corporate updated Bard with Gemini Pro for conversations in English. Google didn’t quantify the improvements but said that the chatbot will likely be higher by way of understanding and summarizing content, reasoning, brainstorming, writing and planning.
Bard has passed through a couple of iterations on the back end. On the time of its original unveiling in February 2023, it was powered by LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications); later within the yr it was updated with a brand new model called PaLM 2; now Bard powered by Gemini Pro will likely be available in greater than 230 countries. Yep, these names and versions are confusing.
In September, Google launched a “Double check” feature that leveraged Google Search to judge if it returned similar results to what Bard generated. At the moment, the feature was only available in English. Google is now extending support for greater than 40 languages.
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Moreover, the search giant is introducing image generation support through the Imagen 2 model, which was released in December. Currently, the feature has support for under English. Users can type a question like “create a picture of a futuristic automobile” within the chatbot interface.
Example of a picture generated through Bard. Image Credits: Google
The corporate said that images created by Bard could have a SynthID digital watermark — developed by DeepMind — embedded in pixels. Nevertheless, you might have to make use of Google’s tools to discover those images.
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In October, the corporate infused Google Assistant with Bard’s AI capabilities so users can do things like plan a visit or make a grocery list. In November, it opened up Bard in English to teenagers with restrictions that prevent Bard from generating unsafe content corresponding to illegal or age-gated substances.
