2024 Archive

With your permission, Bard can use Gmail, Docs, and Drive to find or summarize your email or content - and help you stay ahead of it all. Connect your account to get started with Gmail, Docs, and Drive.

Expanding Bard’s understanding of YouTube videosWhat: We're taking the first steps in Bard's ability to understand YouTube videos. For example, if you’re looking for videos on how to make olive oil cake, you can now also ask how many eggs the recipe in the first video requires.Why: We’ve heard you want deeper engagement with YouTube videos. So we’re expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so you can have a richer conversation with Bard about it.

2023.12.06Bard is getting its biggest upgrade yet with Gemini ProWhat: Starting today, we’re introducing Gemini Pro in Bard, for Bard’s biggest upgrade yet. We’ve specifically tuned Gemini Pro in Bard to be far more capable at things like understanding and summarizing, reasoning, coding, and planning. You can try out Bard with Gemini Pro for text-based prompts, with support for other modalities coming soon. It will be available in English in more than 170 countries and territories to start, and come to more languages and places, like Europe, in the near future.Why: Today, Google introduced Gemini Opens in a new window , the most capable AI model in the world. Gemini unlocks new ways to create, interact and collaborate with Bard.

Bard can generate charts from data you include in your prompts or from tables that Bard generates during your conversations.

Bard can now support exporting more languages to ReplitWhat: In addition to Python, the Export to Replit feature will now support 18 programming languages including C++, Javascript, Ruby, SQL and Swift.Why: As we continue to see developers come to Bard for help with coding, we've heard that you want to engage in Bard's coding-specific features in more programming languages.

Create images with BardWhat: You can create captivating images for work, play, and anything in between with Bard. It’s easy to use - simply enter a few words to bring your imagination to life, starting with English prompts. Click ‘Generate more’ for more options and download the ones you like.Learn more Opens in a new window. Why: Sometimes you might have a picture in mind and now you can easily bring that to life. Create totally unique images in seconds without having to learn complex software.