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Mark Wilson

What is Google Bard? Everything you need to know about the ChatGPT rival

The Google Bard chatbot answering a question on a phone screen.

Google Bard has hung up its virtual quill, in case you hadn’t realized. The ‘large language model’ AI was first revealed by Google back in February 2023 – in a scramble to compete with Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing, which had just been launched at the time – but now, Bard no longer exists.

Bard has been superseded by Google’s new AI, Gemini. In fact, Gemini replaces both Bard and Duet AI (the latter was essentially the rival to Copilot Pro in Google Workspace). Now Gemini houses all this technology (and much more) under one very different and more all-encompassing umbrella.

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