Google expands its rollout of Gemini upgrade to AI chatbot Bard

Google, racing to catch up with ChatGPT's AI assistant smarts, is now rapidly expanding its Bard chatbot, which can work with Google services and uses increasingly sophisticated AI models. — Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa

LONDON: Google has launched an upgrade to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Bard, in the UK as part of the global roll-out of its next-generation model designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The US tech giant and its London-based Deepmind division unveiled its long-promised new foundation model, Gemini, in Bard across the US and in more than 170 countries earlier this month, but had initially delayed the launch in the UK.