Neowin News Feed for: Bard

Sissie Hsiao steps down as Gemini lead amid Google's AI reshuffle

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:56:01 +0000

Sissie Hsiao, who led the development of Bard (now Gemini), is stepping down, with Josh Woodward set to take over. Read more...

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Google replaces Duet AI with Gemini for Workspace, brings Business and Enterprise plans

Anushe Fawaz — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:38:01 +0000

Google is rolling out Gemini for Workspace for corporate customers. Apart from a stand-alone chatting experience with Gemini, users are getting generative AI capabilities in Workspace. Read more...

Google replaces Bard with Gemini, finally launches a mobile app and a new Ultra 1.0 model

Taras Buria — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:18:01 +0000

Google Bard is now officially Gemini. The company has announced the rebranding alongside a dedicated mobile app, and Gemini Advanced powered by Google's new AI model called Ultra 1.0. Read more...

The Google Bard chatbot has Gemini Pro support worldwide and an updated Imagen 2 model

John Callaham — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:52:01 +0000

Google has announced some updates to its Bard AI chatbot, including support for the Gemini Pro large language model and an updated Imagen 2 model for more advanced image generation. Read more...

Google's new Gemini AI model is the company's latest push to compete with Microsoft

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:16:01 +0000

Google has officially announced Gemini, its new generative AI large language model that will be used in its Bard chatbot as well as in its Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone with its latest feature update. Read more...

Google's Bard chatbot can now watch and offer info about YouTube video content

John Callaham — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:12:01 +0000

Google has updated its Bard chatbot so it can now use its YouTube extension to check out specific videos. Then it can chat with users so they can get specific information about the video's content. Read more...

Google Bard will open up to teenagers this week in most countries

Paul Hill — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:06:01 +0000

Google Bard is being opened up to teenagers in most countries. In most jurisdictions this means kids 13+ can use Bard but some countries will have higher minimum ages. It opens up this week. Read more...

Google takes legal action against scammers who exploit enthusiasm for Bard AI

Steve Bennett — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:00:01 +0000

Google has announced in a blog post published today that it will be taking legal action against scammers who wish to profit from the hype surrounding generative AI and its tool, Bard. Read more...

Google updates Bard AI with new email summary improvements and more

John Callaham — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:16:01 +0000

Google has updated its Bard chatbot AI with a couple of new improvements. One will lets users summarize more of their emails and the other adds support for uploaded images in shared conversations. Read more...

Google finally combines Assistant and its Bard generative AI

Paul Hill — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:02:01 +0000

Google has announced Assistant with Bard where generative AI will finally arrive on Assistant. It's a natural step for Google to take and it should make Assistant much more useful. Read more...

Bard gets extension support for Google apps, double-checking with Google and more

Omer Dursun — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:22:02 +0000

Google's Bard chatbot has new extension support that allows users to pull information from Google apps and YouTube. The upgraded Bard can also check answers against Google searches. Read more...

Quora's Poe AI platform jumps on the chat threads bandwagon

Paul Hill — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:34:01 +0000

The Poe AI platform from Quora has received a big update today that splits your conversations with bots into separate chats, similar to how ChatGPT and Bard do it. There's also a new landing page. Read more...

Amazon is working on two custom generative AI chips for AWS large language model training

John Callaham — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:26:01 +0000

Amazon is trying to catch up to the generative AI trend by developing two custom chips that its AWS customers can use to train large language models to compete with NVIDIA and others. Read more...

Google Bard is now available in the EU and Brazil, and adds new features like image search

John Callaham — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:02:01 +0000

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now available to access for countries in the European Union, along with Brazil. It has also just added a number of new features and improvements, including image search. Read more...

Google Bard's EU launch gets delayed due to privacy issues

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:32:01 +0000

The Irish Data Protection Commission claims that Google was planning to launch Bard this week, but it has not revealed enough information on how its chatbot AI will follow Europe's GDPR rules, Read more...

Google improves Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise that is now available for preorders

Anushe Fawaz — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:45:37 +0000

Google announced that it is now letting customers preorder its latest AI assistant, branded as the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise. The capability comes with more changes and features. Read more...

The Google Bard chatbot is getting better at math and also can import tables to Sheets

John Callaham — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:40:01 +0000

Bard can now use what Google calls "implicit code execution" to offer more accurate answers for math and coding questions, and it has now added a feature to bring tables to Google Sheets. Read more...

Wargames: 40 years ago, this movie predicted the rise of ChatGPT and Bing Chat [Update]

John Callaham — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 16:00:05 +0000

The 1983 movie Wargames hit theaters in the US 40 years ago today, on June 3, 1983. It still holds up as a great thriller and a possible cautionary tale about the rise of AI and its consequences. Read more...

Google Bard now requests your actual location for better answers

Paul Hill — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 05:00:01 +0000

Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more. Read more...

Google Bard can now bring in images from Search

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 May 2023 22:45:42 +0000

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet. Read more...

Google Bard now gives better summaries and more useful source info

Paul Hill — Mon, 15 May 2023 21:30:02 +0000

Google has updated Bard again today so that it provides helpful summaries. It will also let you see which parts of the answer are from sources linked at the bottom of the response. Read more...

Google asks users to help build the future of Search with Search Labs

Ishtiaqe Hanif — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:48:19 +0000

Google announces a new Search Labs portal for users to test new developing search features. It gives access to features that may be implemented in future and share feedback directly with the teams. Read more...

Google is "supercharging" its classic Search platform with AI for info, shopping and more

John Callaham — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:16:01 +0000

Google Search will be getting some generative AI features that will allow users to ask follow-up questions for text searches, and will also help with the company's shopping search features. Read more...

Google Bard chatbot AI is now available without a waitlist, and it uses the new PaLM 2 LLM

John Callaham — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:48:32 +0000

Google announced a ton of new and upcoming updates for its Bard chatbot and also revealed there is no longer a waitlist for trying it out. The chatbot also used the more advanced PaLM 2 LLM. Read more...

Google Bard rolls out Dark theme and export feature [Update]

Paul Hill — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:25:21 +0000

Google Bard now has a Dark theme that can be toggled in the lower left of the chatbot's interface. It's not clear if automatic theme switching is supported but switching to Dark mode takes one tap. Read more...

Your next hamburger combo drive thru order at Wendy's could be taken by a Google AI chatbot

John Callaham — Tue, 09 May 2023 15:08:01 +0000

Google is developing a generative AI chatbot for Wendy's that will take drive thru orders from a single company-owned restaurant in June. It's likely it will expand to more locations in the future. Read more...

Google rumored to announce PaLM 2 LLM and more AI updates at I/O 2023

John Callaham — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:58:01 +0000

Google is also rumored to announce even more AI features at I/O on May 10, including an update to Bard that will allow it to solve more complex math and coding problems and more Workspace AI features. Read more...

Google I/O 2023: How to watch it and what will and could be revealed

John Callaham — Mon, 08 May 2023 14:30:01 +0000

Google I/O 2023 may only be held on one day this year, May 10, but it looks like it could be one of the biggest events in Google's developer conference's history, with multiple hardware reveals. Read more...

Google Bard is now open for Workplace accounts in its latest update

John Callaham — Fri, 05 May 2023 22:10:01 +0000

The latest update for the Bard chatbot AI will now allow Google Workspace admins to enable access to Bard for their users, allowing them to use it for business or enterprise tasks. Read more...

UK competition watchdog launches review into generative AI

Paul Hill — Fri, 05 May 2023 13:32:02 +0000

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching its initial review into generative AI to see how it could affect competition or affect consumers. It'll publish a report in September. Read more...

Google is reportedly working to add Bard to its Pixel phones via a widget

John Callaham — Thu, 04 May 2023 16:42:01 +0000

The homescreen widget would be a more direct way for Pixel phones to access Google's Bard chatbot AI, rather than use a web browser. There's no word on when this new feature might launch. Read more...

AI systems from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others to be tested at DEFCON 31 in August

John Callaham — Thu, 04 May 2023 11:42:02 +0000

Among other announcements, the Biden Administration revealed that companies with AI systems like Microsoft and Google have agreed to have them tested at the annual DEFCON hacking conference. Read more...

Samsung is banning its employees from using chatbots like ChatGPT due to security leak

John Callaham — Tue, 02 May 2023 12:58:01 +0000

Samsung sent out a memo to its employees barring them from using chatbots like Bing Chat, Google Bard, and ChatGPT at work after some employees used them to upload secret company info. Read more...

ChatGPT rival Google Bard launch was delayed over safety concerns

Ishtiaqe Hanif — Mon, 01 May 2023 14:22:01 +0000

Ex-Google engineer fired from Google's Responsible AI team reveals OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Google Bard had gone sentient. This has caused months of delays in the product launch over safety concerns. Read more...

AI on the brink of consciousness? AMCS open letter calls for action

Paul Hill — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:12:01 +0000

The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science has penned an open letter, that you can sign, calling for more research into consciousness. It says this will help us better understand AI. Read more...

NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails will keep chatbot AIs like ChatGPT from going crazy with its answers

John Callaham — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:46:01 +0000

The open source software is designed to assist chatbots with large language models by keeping them on track with their answers and avoiding false or even crazy responses to questions. Read more...

Google Bard can now write code in over 20 programming languages

John Callaham — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:08:01 +0000

The new feature will allow Bard users to not only generate code, but it can also help with debugging code. However, Microsoft's Bing Chat has had the ability to generate code for some time. Read more...

Google merges its two AI teams, Brain and DeepMind, to form Google DeepMind

John Callaham — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:30:01 +0000

The merging of Google's two separate AI groups will likely speed up the development of its generative AI projects, including its Bard chatbot, as it tries to catch up with Microsoft. Read more...

New report claims Google is rushing out Bard and other AI products with poor ethical guards

John Callaham — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 17:18:01 +0000

The report claims Google's ethical AI team has taken a back seat at the company while it pushes out products like the Bard chatbot, which may offer a lot of misinformation to users. Read more...