Google Bard announcement: When it will launch, what was shared

By attaching a screenshot, users will be able to ask Assistant with Bard questions related to what’s on their screen. For example, the demo shows Bard looking at a picture of a user’s plant and giving them advice on how to take care of it. Google says Bard will often answer a prompt with a number of drafts, allowing users to pick the best starting point for their conversation with the chatbot.

• For example, the demo shows Bard looking at a picture of a user’s plant and giving them advice on how to take care of it.
• In an example today, Google even highlighted a search result where Bard got it wrong.
• The AI system can even evaluate the difficulty of learning two musical instruments and come to a conclusion.

Google’s ChatGPT rival Bard is coming to search results next month

Back in March, the initial waitlist ended in May with a global rollout spanning some 180 countries and with additional support for Japanese and Korean. A notable omission thus far, however, has been the EU, with Google delaying the EU launch after a privacy regulator voiced concerns. Google’s announcement follows the launch of San Francisco-based startup OpenAI’s online chatbot ChatGPT in November.

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In the top-right corner, you’ll find an indicator of when the widget last refreshed its financial data. For now, Assistant with Bard is still inaccessible, but these design polishes show that the formal launch is growing ever closer. For now, it’s not clear whether this is intended to be a permanent fixture of the Discover tab.

The new button is reminiscent of a physical slider switch and sits at the top of the page, above the Google logo, rather than as part of the existing bottom bar. Put your brand in front of 10,000+ tech and VC leaders across all three days of Disrupt 2025. Amplify your reach, spark real connections, and lead the innovation charge. If you’re eager to try out Google Assistant with Bard, the new Pixel 8 Pro will get it first. It’s also one of the best phones you can buy for other reasons, like AI features and great cameras.

Instead of being incorporated directly into Google’s search engine, Bard can be found on its own website. In conclusion, the bot can help plan events and list the best novelists of all time based on information from across the web. The level of in-depth analysis and personalized recommendations is what sets Bard apart from traditional search algorithms. However, Google plans to roll out the service to more users in the coming weeks. Last month, Google laid off 12,000 of it employees, which underscored the frustration and resentment bubbling up in the internal forum. A meme of actor Nicolas Cage smiling said, “Firing 12k people rises the stock by 3%, one rushed AI presentation drops it by 8%.”

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The only thing we do know is the bots are collectively codenamed Motoko. But on a day when Microsoft added AI image generation to its Bing Chat, and shortly after Runway debuted AI text-to-video, you can forgive the world for just shrugging its shoulders at Bard. We said in May that we wanted to make Bard more widely available, including in the European Union, and that we would do so responsibly, after engagement with experts, regulators and policymakers. Next to this, the widget also moves its refresh button to a more convenient location, easily allowing up-to-the-minute information. Previously, the refresh button was tucked away at the bottom of the widget (usually requiring you to scroll down). Where the current iteration focuses on clean visuals, primarily showing one particular stock’s current price and recent movement, the new widget adds a bit more utility.

Google wanted to launch the ChatGPT competitor the same week Microsoft showed what Bing is capable of after integrating ChatGPT technology. Last month Google expanded its generative AI chatbot, Bard, to over 180 countries across the globe, but that excluded the whole of the European Union. Now, a new report claims Bard won’t come to the EU anytime soon over privacy concerns. Bloomberg’s story follows an Insider piece in April that found that Bard-testing contractors weren’t given enough time to corroborate and check the chatbot’s most accurate answer. During the Pixel event, Google announced something that we all expected, Assistant with Bard.

The devices that can see the tip are likely to get Assistant with Bard, and the ones that can’t might be left without the feature. Between this rebrand and Google gutting both the Assistant service and the Assistant division itself, the company is moving quickly to position Bard as an Assistant replacement. Here’s hoping Google brings more Assistant features (both present and axed) to the new chatbot.

Meanwhile, as also seen above, Dylan Roussel managed to enable the actual popup window that you’ll use to submit new prompts/questions to Assistant with Bard. We first saw this design in Google’s initial previews of its AI tool at the Pixel 8 event in October. Using the three buttons along the bottom, you can type or speak a message and/or share a photo with the Assistant. The company is also tweaking its recently launched stocks and finance widget. The Tensor-powered Pixel phones include the Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, Pixel 8 series, and the Pixel Tablet. It would seem odd that the Galaxy S24 is on this list, however, Google and Samsung have a tight-knit partnership.

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However, similar to other Google features, the rollout is expected to be gradual, and users will likely gain access to Bard after the testing phase is over. Google announced last year that it was bringing its new Bard AI chatbot to Google Assistant, calling the combined experience Assistant with Bard. Now, new evidence suggests that Google will rebrand Assistant with Bard before its launch. Google senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan showed a demo of how asking about the best constellations to look for when stargazing, showed a detailed, conversational answer directly on the search page. Speaking of generating images, the third feature allows users a way to create backgrounds and foregrounds for smartphones and website banners. The last one, called Power Up, is said to be able to improve text prompts.

We don’t know how the backgrounds can be made (if that’s what’s going on) or what powering up a text prompt even looks like. Accredited technology blog dedicated to providing breaking news, expert reviews and original content related to mobile tech and EV industry, smartphones, gadgets and IoT. All the accusations from the staffers came after Google tried to fast-forward Bard’s announcement.