Google Bard to launch in 180 countries including India

The search engine giant Google has announced the roll-out of the AI chatbot Bard in 180 countries including India.
Initially Bard was only available for a few users in the UK and the US. Now, however, the AI-powered chatbot is available for users in more than 180 countries and territories, including India.

The Bard is going to be a direct competition to the recent OpenAI’s ChatGPT. 

Users who are interested can log into the Google Bard AI chatbot at bard.google.com.

Google stated some other features: "You’ll also be able to include images — alongside text — in your own prompts, allowing you to boost your imagination and creativity in completely new ways. To make this happen, we’re bringing the power of Google Lens right into Bard. Let’s say you want to have some fun using a photo of your dogs. You can upload it and prompt Bard to “write a funny caption about these two.” Using Google Lens, Bard will analyze the photo, detect the dogs’ breeds, and draft a few creative captions — all within seconds."

Introducing coding upgrades and export features

Google is incorporating developers’ feedback into a few key coding upgrades, including the following:

Source citations: Starting next week, Google will make citations even more precise. If Bard brings in a block of code or cites other content, just click the annotation and Bard will underline those parts of the response and link to the source.

Bard can start drafting emails and documents. For example, if you’re a die-hard pickleball fan. You can ask Bard to write an email invitation for your new pickleball league, summarizing the rules of the game and highlighting its inclusivity of all ages and levels. Just click the “draft in Gmail” button so you can make those final tweaks before getting your pickleball league off the ground.

Looking ahead, Google will introduce new ways to fuel your imagination and curiosity by integrating the capabilities of Google apps and services you may already use — Docs, Drive, Gmail, Maps and others — right into the Bard experience. Google says users will always be in control of your privacy settings when deciding how you want to use these tools and extensions.

Bard will also be able to tap into all kinds of services from across the web, with extensions from outside partners, to let you do things never before possible. In the coming months, Google will integrate Adobe Firefly, Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, into Bard so you can easily and quickly turn your own creative ideas into high-quality images, which you can then edit further or add to your designs in Adobe Express.