Google Bard Updates

• What: Bard is now available in over 40 new languages including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), German, Hindi, Spanish, and more. Google has also expanded access to more places, including all 27 countries in the European Union (EU) and Brazil.
• Why: Bard is global and its purpose is to assist you in exploring possibilities. Google’s support for English, Japanese, and Korean languages helped them learn how to launch languages responsibly, enabling them to now support the majority of language coverage on the internet.

Google Lens in Bard

• What: You can upload images alongside text in your conversations with Bard, allowing you to boost your imagination and creativity in completely new ways. To make this happen, Google has brought the power of Google Lens into Bard, starting with English.
• Why: Images are a fundamental part of how you put your imagination to work, so Google Lens has been added to Bard. Whether you want more information about an image or need inspiration for a funny caption, you now have even more ways to explore and create with Bard.

Bard can read responses out loud

• What: Google added text-to-speech capabilities to Bard in over 40 languages, including Hindi, Spanish, and US English.
• Why: Sometimes hearing something aloud helps you bring an idea to life in new ways beyond reading it. Listen to responses and see what it helps you imagine and create!

Pinned & Recent Threads

• What: You can now pick up where you left off with your past Bard conversations and organize them according to your needs. Google added the ability to pin conversations, rename them, and have multiple conversations going at once.
• Why: The best ideas take time, sometimes multiple hours or days to create. Keep your threads and pin your most critical threads to keep your creative process flowing.

Share your Bard conversations with others

• What: Google has made it easier to share part or all of your Bard chat with others. Shareable links make seeing your chat and any sources just a click away so others can seamlessly view what you created with Bard.
• Why: It’s hard to hold back a new idea sometimes. Google wanted to make it easier for you to share your creations to inspire others, unlock your creativity, and show your collaboration process.

Modify Bard’s responses

• What: Google is introducing 5 new options to help you modify Bard’s responses. Just tap to make the response simpler, longer, shorter, more professional, or more casual.
• Why: When a response is close enough but needs a tweak, Google Bard makes it easier to get you closer to your desired creation.

Export Python code to Replit

• What: Google continues to expand Bard’s export capabilities for code. You can now export Python code to Replit, in addition to Google Colab.
• Why: Streamline your workflow and continue your programming tasks by moving Bard interactions into Replit.

2023.06.07 (June 7)

Bard codes for you for improved math and data analysis

• What: Starting with English, Google has updated Bard to detect computational prompts and run code in the background, making Bard better at mathematical tasks, coding questions, and string manipulation.
• Why: Google has supercharged your ability to analyze data by making Bard better at computation, like finding how many times a certain number shows up in a data set. Bard won’t always get it right, but will keep improving with your feedback.

Export Bard-generated tables to Google Sheets

• What: When Bard generates tables, you can now export them right into Google Sheets.
• Why: Continue your creative explorations wherever you need by moving Bard responses into more of your favorite apps.

2023.06.01 (June 1)

More relevant responses with location info

• What: Bard can start providing more relevant responses if you choose to let it use your device’s precise location. You can manage your preferences in location settings.
• Why: Precise location helps Bard provide more relevant responses about restaurants near you and many other things about your area.

2023.05.23 (May 23)

Bringing images to Bard

• What: Starting with English responses, Bard can now bring in images from Google Search, so you can get helpful responses with visuals. You can also ask Bard for images directly. Bard will show a source for each image.
• Why: Images can help you communicate your ideas more effectively. They can bring concepts to life, make recommendations more persuasive, and enhance responses when you ask for visual information.

2023.05.15 (May 15)

More concise summaries

• What: Google has updated Bard with better summarization capabilities by incorporating improvements it has made to its large language models.
• Why: Google has made Bard better at summarizing information, which is especially helpful when you want to get the gist of a topic quickly. Bard won’t always get it right, but will keep improving with your feedback.

Making sources more useful

• What: Bard can now help you identify which parts of a response match a source. For the responses with sources, you’ll see numbers alongside the response. By clicking on the numbers you will now be able to identify the section of the text that matches the source and easily navigate to it.
• Why: Bard wants to make it easier for you to understand which parts of a response match a source and provide you with source links in line with the text.

2023.05.10 (May 15)

Expanding access to Bard in more countries and languages

• What: You can now collaborate with Bard in Japanese and Korean, in addition to US English. Google has also expanded access to Bard in all three languages to over 180 countries and territories.
• Why: As Google continues to build Bard responsibly with more real-world feedback, Google is gradually expanding access to more languages, countries, and territories over time.

Export to Google Docs & Gmail

• What: Google has added new one-click options to export content generated by Bard, including formatting, directly into Google Docs and Gmail.
• Why: Google wants to speed up and simplify your workflow by giving you a way to export Bard’s responses and edit them directly in these Google Workspace apps.

Read more comfortably in dim light

• What: Google has launched a Dark theme on Bard, giving you the ability to easily switch Bard’s appearance between a light background with dark text to a dark background with light text.
• Why: Dark theme can make using Bard easier on your eyes in dim light.

2023.05.05 (May 5)

Access for Google Workspace accounts

• What: Google Workspace admins can now enable Bard for their domains, allowing their users to access Bard using their Workspace accounts.
• Why: You can now use Bard to help with work, research, or other business needs when signed into your administrator-enabled Google Workspace account.

2023.04.21 (April 21)

Help with coding

• What: Bard can now help you code in over 20 programming languages. When Bard generates Python code, you can also export & test the code directly in Google Colab. Try prompting Bard for help with languages like C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, and even Google Sheets functions.
• Why: People of all levels of programming experience, from beginners to experienced engineers, can use Bard to help with coding—whether it’s by generating & exporting code, debugging code, or explaining how code works. Use discretion and carefully test and review all code for errors, bugs, and vulnerabilities before relying on it. Learn more

Adding more variety to drafts

• What: When you view other drafts, you’ll now see a wider range of options that are more distinct from each other.
• Why: A wider range of more distinct drafts can help expand your creative explorations.

2023.04.10 (April 10)

Bard Experiment updates page

• What: Google launched an Experiment updates page to post the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes for the Bard experiment.
• Why: So that people will have an easy place to see the latest Bard updates for them to test and provide feedback.

There’s more when you click “Google it”

• What: Google added additional suggested Search topics when people click “Google it.”
• Why: People will be able to explore a broader range of interests with more related topics.

Updates to Bard’s capabilities

• What: Google updated Bard with better capabilities for math and logic.
• Why: Bard doesn’t always get it right on math and logic prompts and we are working toward higher-quality responses in these areas.

Source: Google