Google BARD Update: Revolutionary AI Chatbot to Release in 180 Countries, Including India

In more than 180 countries, including India, Google announced BARD’s global debut, their conversational generative AI chatbot, at its annual developer conference.

On Thursday, its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2023, held at the business’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, the firm announced that BARD AI, their conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot, is now available in over 180 countries, including India.

Google is expanding the availability of BARD to 180 countries by removing the waitlist and enabling more users to experience it in English. Bard will also be available in Korean and Japanese. Google is launching these two languages as its first ones outside of English to safely launch the product, get user input, and utilise that data to introduce 40 additional languages.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said during his keynote address that when models’ capabilities advance, one of the most exciting possibilities is to make them available for direct involvement by people. He mentioned their conversational AI experiment Bard as a chance to accomplish this.

“Let’s say you want to have some fun using a photo of your dogs. You can upload it and prompt Bard to ‘write a funny caption about these two’. Using Google Lens, Bard will analyse the photo, detect the dogs’ breeds, and draft a few creative captions — all within seconds,” on Wednesday, Google stated in a blog post.

Pichai claimed that Google has made major improvements to Bard and that these improvements are ongoing. He added that the chatbot’s reasoning and mathematical problem-solving skills have increased, and it can now handle a variety of programming capabilities. Pichai added that PaLM 2, Google’s most recent large language model, is now Bard’s only source of power. PaLM 2 is accessible to developers via the Google PaLM API, Firebase, and Colab.

Bard was introduced in the US and the UK using a lightweight broad language model so that it could be swiftly iterated upon, according to Jack Krafcik, Senior Product Director at Google. 

Additionally, the company has advanced quickly since its start. The last several months have enhanced Bard’s math, logic, reasoning, and coding abilities. Bard can now not only generate code but also debug and explain code. Bard now comprehends 20 programming languages, making it one of the most popular AI tools for interaction and collaboration.