Google has launched its Bard chatbot in a bid to rival OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, as it seeks to make up lost ground in the race to commercialise generative artificial intelligence technology.
The tech giant began rolling out the chatbot, its first standalone consumer AI product, on Tuesday. Google said that Bard, which provides answers to text-based questions, will be run separately from its Google Search engine.
Its launch comes almost four months after Microsoft-backed rival OpenAI drew worldwide attention with the public release of its chatbot, ChatGPT, sparking a rush by tech giants to bring powerful new language-based artificial intelligence to the internet search business.