Google Upgrades Bard With AI Image Generation and Multilingual Gemini Pro
Google enhances its Bard chatbot with Imagen 2-powered image creation and expands Gemini Pro to over 40 languages to better compete with ChatGPT.
Google updates its Bard AI chatbot with new image generation capabilities powered by its Imagen 2 model, allowing users to create high-quality, photorealistic images directly from text prompts. This addition transforms Bard into a more direct competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus, which currently integrates the DALL-E 3 image generator for its subscribers.
Alongside the new visual features, Google expands the capabilities of its Gemini Pro model within Bard by rolling it out in over 40 languages across more than 230 countries and territories. This massive expansion gives a global audience access to the model's advanced reasoning, summarizing, and coding skills, as well as Bard's web-based double-check feature that helps validate AI responses.
These simultaneous updates represent a significant step for Google as it works to close the competitive gap in the generative AI space. By combining multilingual support with built-in image creation tools, Google positions Bard as a more helpful and globally accessible collaborator for both everyday tasks and complex creative projects.