Google Bard now live in 180 countries including India; waitlist ends

Google has opened access to its chatbot Bard in over 180 countries and removed the waitlist requirement.

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The move is aimed at competing with OpenAI's dominant chatbot, ChatGPT, in the AI chatbot landscape.

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Google has added new features to Bard and plans to continue improving and introducing more features.

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Bard will be available in Japanese and Korean, with support for 40 more languages in the pipeline.

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Bard now uses Google's latest large language model, PaLM 2, enabling coding capabilities, advanced math, reasoning skills, and more.

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Bard is still in the beta stage and, like other generative AI-based chatbots, may make mistakes and "hallucinate."

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