Bard, Google's Creative AI Chatbot, will Launch in 180 nations, Including India

At Google I/O, its annual developer conference hosted at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Thursday, the firm revealed that Bard, its conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot, is now available in over 180 countries, including India.

In his keynote address, Google CEO Sundar Pichai remarked, "As models get better and more capable, one of the most exciting opportunities is making them available for people to engage with directly." "With Bard, our conversational AI experiment, we have that opportunity.

According to Sissie Hsiao, Vice President of Google and General Manager of the Google Assistant business unit, Bard is being made available to users in all of these nations and will now allow them to interact with it in Korean and Japanese. Hsiao added that it will soon be available in forty additional languages.

Bard, Google's response to OpenAI's ChatGPT, removes most waitlist restrictions and expands the chatbot's English availability so that it can continue to learn from a wider range of individuals. The Google Bard chatbot was initially limited to the United Kingdom and the United States. Through the official Google Bard website, interested Indian users can now join the waitlist for the AI chatbot.

The company was "rapidly evolving," according to Pichai. It now supports a wide variety of programming capabilities and has significantly improved its reasoning and math-prompting abilities, as of right now, it runs perfectly on PaLM 2," he stated.

Google's newest large language model (LLM), PaLM 2, will serve as the foundation for the updated Bard chat tool. Developers can now access PaLM 2 via Google's PaLM API, Firebase, and Colab. He went on to say that the PaLM 2 models are better at logic and reasoning, have extensive training in scientific and mathematical subjects, and can speak over 100 languages.

Additionally, Pichai stated that PaLM 2 would offer features that would facilitate collaboration with coworkers who speak different languages and could assist developers all over the world.

Interestingly, Google stated that it will soon include multimodal content in Bard, allowing it to provide answers in addition to text. Bard's responses and prompts will soon incorporate more visual elements. You'll have the option to ask it things like, "What are some priority sights in New Orleans?" In the company blog post, Hsiao wrote, "and in addition to text, you'll get a helpful response along with rich visuals to give you a much better sense of what you're exploring."