May 2023

Google ends Bard waitlist, making English version of chatbot widely available

May 10, 2023

At Google I/O today, the company announced that it was removing most waitlist restrictions and making Bard, the company’s generative AI chatbot more widely available, starting today in English. The idea is to continue to work on the chatbot, but with a larger group of people In a blog post announcing the change, Sissie Hsiao, […]

Google ends Bard waitlist, making English version of chatbot widely available by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard

May 10, 2023

Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is getting new generative AI capabilities courtesy of Adobe. Adobe announced today that Firefly, its recently introduced collection of AI models for generating media content, is coming to Bard alongside Adobe’s free graphic design tool, Adobe Express. Firefly — currently in public beta — will become the “premier generative […]

Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s PaLM 2 paper shows that text-generating AI still has a long way to go

May 10, 2023

At its annual I/O conference, Google unveiled PaLM 2, the successor to its PaLM large language model for understanding and generating multilingual text. Google claims that it’s a significant improvement over its predecessor and that it even bests OpenAI’s GPT-4, depending on the task at hand. But it’s far from a panacea. Absent some hands-on […]

Google’s PaLM 2 paper shows that text-generating AI still has a long way to go by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model

May 10, 2023

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and function as the foundation model for most of the new AI features the company is announcing today. PaLM 2 is […]

Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI

May 10, 2023

Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI for its tools like the distraction-removing Magic Eraser and corrective Photo Unblur features in Photos, it’s now turning to AI for more complex edits with the introduction of Magic Editor. The new […]

Google Photos to gain a new ‘Magic Editor’ feature powered by generative AI by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google Maps is getting a new ‘Immersive View for Routes’ feature

May 10, 2023

Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today. The new feature brings all of the information that a user may need into one place, including details about traffic simulations, bike lanes, complex intersections, parking and more. Immersive View for […]

Google Maps is getting a new ‘Immersive View for Routes’ feature by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch