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JE Technology Desk: Google Bard, the AI chatbot of search giant Google powered by the PaLM 2 model, is set for a massive overhaul with new capabilities, including new features, more language support and a wider rollout. The company calls it the "biggest expansion" to date.

Here are the features the tech giant highlighted in its 'India Blog' website.

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Newer languages and territory expansion

Google added that Bard now supports more than 40 languages and nine Indian languages: "Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, and Urdu."

Bard now available in more countries

Google added that Bard will now be available in Brazil and Europe also. According to the Bard Help page, this takes the number of supported languages to 40 and the regional availability of the AI model to 230+ countries and territories.

Customised Responses

Users can now listen to responses returned by Bard. It will help users learn the right pronunciation and listen to texts in 40+ languages. A user can select the "sound icon" to hear these responses. Plus, Bard users can adjust the tone and style of answers of the AI model in five different modes: "simple, long, short, professional or casual." Currently, this functionality is available in English and will debut in more languages soon.

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Productivity Enhancements

An option to let users revisit prompts by pinning and renaming conversations is now available in Bard. These will appear in the sidebar placed on the left. For coders, Bard will now let you export Python code to Replit besides Google Colab. Plus, users can now share Bard's responses via shareable links to others in more than 40 languages.

Apart from textual enhancements, Google Bard now lets users upload images with prompts to let users get desired output. With the help of Google Lens, you can ask for more information or a caption from the AI tool. This functionality is currently available in English (US) only. But will expand to more languages.

NotebookLM

The search giant also unveiled the "AI-first notebook" with the new name NotebookLM (earlier unveiled as Project Tailwind at Google I/O). Dubbed "a virtual research assistant", it can explain concepts, summarise information, generate ideas and more from the sources fed into the model. It can accomplish this once grounded in Google Docs. The offering is live to a "small group" in the United States.

Bard is among the chatbots competing in the AI arena with Microsoft's AI-powered Bing and OpenAI's ChatGPT. These big tech companies regularly bring updates to their models to inch ahead in the AI race.