Google rolls out AI chatbot Bard to Europe and Brazil and adds more features

LONDON: Google said Thursday that it’s rolling out its AI-powered chatbot Bard across Europe and in Brazil, expanding its availability to hundreds of millions more users.

The company also said it’s adding more features to Bard as it scrambles to keep up with rival Microsoft – which uses OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT service in its Bing search engine – in the race to capitalize on generative artificial intelligence technology that has captured worldwide attention.