Google parent Alphabet Inc is planning to release a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine, Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Monday. More specifically, the company added that it is currently working "on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA," called Bard.
According to the announcement, the service will be open from today to trusted testers before making it available to the public in the coming weeks. The news comes months after Microsoft and OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a rival version that the public has popularly accepted. Most recently, Microsoft announced it would extend its financial backing to that project for $10 billion.
"Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses," said Pichai.