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Evening Standard
Technology
Saqib Shah

What is Google LaMDA? The web giant’s ChatGPT rival, Bard, is nearing launch

Sundar Pichai says the public will get the chance to try out its AI tool very soon

(Picture: Jeff Chiu / AP)

In the wake of ChatGPT’s breakout success, Google has announced a chatbot of its own called Google Bard.

LaMDA is the back-end of this chatbot, the intelligence that powers your interactions with Bard. While Bard will probably be the public face of this technology, LaMDA is what made it possible. And it has probably been around for longer than you might guess.

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