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Google boosts AI chatbot Bard with visual search, third-party plug-ins

May 11, 2023

Google’s AI-fueled Bard, widely recognized as its answer to ChatGPT, is getting a swath of buzzy new features as the tech giant looks to stay competitive in an increasingly popular generative AI space. At its core, the tool has notably been updated to Google’s next-generation learning model, PaLM 2, recognized for its stronger reasoning and coding capabilities, per blog details, which could help instill a sense of maturity for the months-old offering.

Among other updates, Bard will now be available to a much wider audience with the elimination of its user waitlist, inviting a new level of users to provide feedback, which has previously yielded a bit of a mixed bag as the chatbot is still in its early stages.

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