Uber Eats is bringing a Google-powered AI assistant

Uber Eats is bringing an AI chatbot later this year, helping users find offers and order across the app.

Uber’s AI assistant will be powered by Google’s PaLM language model, the same one that powers Google’s alternative to ChatGPT, the Bard. Additionally, the assistant will scout through the information of a vast catalogue of over 900,000 merchants

The company says that the chatbot will eliminate the need for customers to endlessly scroll through stores and menus, saving time and effort.