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Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

13 Jul, 2023

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You can now access Bard in new languages and countries, customize responses, add images to your prompts and more.

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Jack Krawczyk
Product Lead, Bard
Amar Subramanya
Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences
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Curiosity and imagination are the driving forces behind human creativity. Whether it's a child inventing a game, friends dreaming up their next adventure, or an entrepreneur coming up with a new business idea, our ability to imagine new possibilities is one of our most innate human qualities.

That’s why we created Bard: to help you explore that curiosity, augment your imagination and ultimately get your ideas off the ground — not just by answering your questions, but by helping you build on them.

Bard is designed as an interface to an LLM that enables users to collaborate with generative AI. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. You can use Bard to boost your productivity, accelerate your ideas and fuel your curiosity. You might ask Bard to give you tips to reach your goal of reading more books this year, explain quantum physics in simple terms or spark your creativity by outlining a blog post.

In May, we moved Bard to PaLM 2, a far more capable large language model, which has enabled many of our recent improvements — including advanced math and reasoning skills and coding capabilities. In the past few weeks, coding has already become one of the most popular things people do with Bard.

Today we’re announcing Bard’s biggest expansion to date. It’s now available in most of the world, and in the most widely spoken languages. And we’re launching new features to help you better customize your experience, boost your creativity and get more done.

Interact with Bard in new places and languages

Starting today, you can collaborate with Bard in over 40 languages, including nine Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, and Urdu.

You can also now access Bard in more places, including Brazil and across Europe. As part of our bold and responsible approach to AI, we’ve proactively engaged with experts, policymakers and privacy regulators on this expansion. And as we bring Bard to more regions and languages over time, we’ll continue to use our AI Principles as a guide, incorporate user feedback, and take steps to protect people’s privacy and data.

Get more customized responses

We're launching new updates so Bard’s responses better suit your needs:

  • Listen to responses: Sometimes hearing something out loud can help you approach your idea in a different way. That’s why, starting today, you can listen to Bard’s responses. This is especially helpful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script. Simply enter a prompt and select the sound icon to hear Bard’s answers. This feature is now live in over 40 languages.
  • Easily adjust Bard’s responses: You can now change the tone and style of Bard's responses to five different options: simple, long, short, professional or casual. For example, you can ask Bard to help you write a marketplace listing for a vintage armchair, and then shorten the response using the drop-down. This feature is live in English and will expand to new languages soon.
A GIF shows a conversation with Bard. The cursor selects a drop-down in Bard’s response to make it shorter.

Boost your productivity

Four new Bard features are also launching today to help you get more done:

  • Pin and rename conversations: We’ve heard you want to be able to revisit prompts, so we’re adding new ways to pin and rename your conversations with Bard. Now when you start a conversation, you’ll see options to pin, rename and pick up recent conversations in the sidebar. For example, if you ask Bard to help you compare outdoor sports for the summer, you can revisit the tips later. This feature is now live in over 40 languages.
A GIF shows a conversation with Bard. The cursor selects the option to pin the chat in the sidebar and renames it.
  • Export code to more places: We’re continuing to see interest in using Bard for coding tasks. So today we’re adding a new feature that allows you to export Python code to Replit, in addition to Google Colab. This feature is now live in over 40 languages.
A GIF shows a conversation with Bard. Code is generated in Bard and then exported to Replit.
  • Share responses with friends: We've also made it easier to share part or all of your Bard chat with your network. With shareable links, you can share your ideas and creations with others. This feature is live in over 40 languages.
  • Use images in your prompts: Images are a big part of how we put our imaginations to work. At I/O we announced we’re bringing the capabilities of Google Lens into Bard. Whether you want more information about an image or just need help coming up with a caption, you can now upload images with prompts and Bard will analyze the photo to help. This feature is now live in English (US), and we’ll expand to new languages soon.
A GIF shows the text “Bard can now collaborate using Google Lens” and a picture of a bike.

So the next time you have an inkling of an idea, a full-fledged concept or just need to brainstorm, give Bard a try. You’ll not only find the tools to bring that idea to life, you may also uncover an entirely new one.

As we improve Bard, we will continue to share updates on our progress. We anticipate this will be an incredible learning experience — both in identifying where Bard is useful and helpful, and where we need to continue to iterate and make it better. We are actively adding to Bard’s capabilities, and through ongoing research, testing and user feedback, we’ll continue to improve Bard together.

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