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GoogleBard has hung up its virtual quill, in case you hadnt realized.

Bard has been superseded by Googles new AI, Gemini.

The Google Bard chatbot answering a question on a phone screen

NowGeminihouses all this technology (and much more) under one very different and more all-encompassing umbrella.

What was Google Bard?

To begin with, Bard was released on a “lightweight model version” of LaMDA.

The Google Bard chatbot answering a question on a computer screen

What could Google Bard do?

For example, rather than standard questions like “how many keys does a piano have?

We initially found Bard to fall short in terms of features and performance compared to its competitors.

The Google Bard chatbot answering a question on a phone screen

Similarly, Bard could interact with info from the likes of Maps and evenYouTube.

The Google Bard chatbot answering a question on a computer screen

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