Google on Wednesday opened its Bard generative artificial intelligence chatbot to 180 countries in English. The chatbot will soon be able to converse in 40 languages and must become multimedia, i.e.
integrate images into users' questions and answers. The Californian group is also developing extensions to Bard, so that users can interact with the robot directly from the Maps application, the Gmail mailbox or the online word processor Docs. Google is lagging behind Microsoft on the deployment of generative AI, is to present Wednesday its latest technological advances.