Today, Google brought generative AI to Maps, but it also announced some new developments for Bard. The most important of these is that Bard can now use Gemini Pro, Google’s latest multimodal AI model, in all languages and territories where Bard is already available.
Previously, Gemini Pro was introduced in Bard for English only, giving it “more advanced comprehension, reasoning, summarization and coding capabilities.”
Bard can finally also generate images. This is available in English “in most countries around the world” for free. This feature is powered by Google’s brand new Imagen 2 model, which is “designed to balance quality and speed, delivering high-quality photorealistic results.”
As you would expect, using this feature is as simple as typing a description into Bard’s text box. You’ll then get “wide-ranging, personalized visuals to help bring your idea to life.” Bard uses SynthID to embed digitally identifiable watermarks into the pixels of the generated images, so that there is a clear way to understand that they were generated by artificial intelligence.
Examples of images generated by Bard
Finally, you can now double-check Bard’s output with Google search results in more than 40 languages by clicking the G icon. Once you click on it, Bard will evaluate whether there is content on the web that confirms its answer . You will receive highlighted sentences and will be able to learn more about supported or contradictory information found by Google search.
Google says the Large Model Systems Organization, a “leading evaluator of language models and chatbots in all languages,” finds Bard with Gemini Pro to be “one of the most preferred chatbots available,” with or without cost, noting that it has made a “amazing leap forward” Blind ratings from third-party Google evaluators also identified Bard with Gemini Pro as “one of the best-performing conversational AIs, compared to leading free and paid alternatives.”
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