Google Bard Goes Global: Now Available in Over 180 Countries!

Google Bard's new upgrades include wider availability, multimodality, apps & extensions, and new coding features for better productivity and efficiency.

Written by: Aranya Sarkar

Edited by: Krutarth Ghosalkar

Last Updated: May 11, 2023

Google has said that it will roll out its chatbot bard to over 180 countries, including India as part of its initiative so that more people can get their answers or queries in an accurate way. The tech giant believes that artificial intelligence is the future, and it will help many people to solve their doubts. From school children solving their doubts to developers asking their coding query, google is constantly making more advancements in their langauge research and its models are being integrated to provide a long range of products and services.

Launched in March 2023, google is working relentlessly to make bard the most reliable artificial intelligence chatbot in the technology world. At a time when other chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing etc are trying to level up their dominance, Google’s bard is also not lagging behind them. In the Google I/O event this year, the company introduced a number of upgrades to bard. Google also has gave acknowledgment they have made with bard and said the company is looking broad vision for the future with bard. The I/O event is where google showcase its latest technology advancements, software upgrades, latest products etc.

Google has also committed to maintain the quality standards while following the principles of ai, and so many large language models are still in their early development. Google’s latest LLM (Learning Language Model), Palm 2 supports bard in multiple languages. Bard now supports the Japanese and Korean languages and the company is also planning to support over other 40 languages soon. With the capability Palm 2 has, it can perform coding and debugging as well, supporting more than 20 programming languages.

Using bard, users will get images directly from the google search image based on their queries. Google has allowed users to use google lens with the help of bard so that it will give some creative ideas. Users will have the control of privacy and security. The company will also connect bard to other apps such as adobe firefly, so that people can turn their own creative ideas into high quality images etc, and in the coming months, it will also connect with other google apps and partners such as open table, kayak etc.

Google has also said that they are taking the feedback from users and is continuously upgrading bard to make the product better. It will also add an export button from next week, as the users said they got good explanation and want to export to the code lab such as python, along with that users can also export an idea from bard to Gmail. Additionally, it has introduced the dark theme for the betterment of the eyes.