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Following a period of intense hype around OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google has finally unveiled Bard in a powerful counter move designed to protect its demesne.

In a dedicated blog post, Google has announced that the Bard is available for testing by "trusted testers." Google plans to open up the AI system to a wider pool of developers starting next month.

As far as the specifics are concerned, Bard is an experimental conversational AI service based on Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Google describes Bard's capabilities in the following manner:

"Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, helping you to explain new discoveries from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills."

While expanding on the upcoming deeper integration of AI in Google's search engine, the tech giant announced that users would soon be able to get answers to complex questions in an "easy-to-digest" format.

Of course, Microsoft has already announced to incorporate ChatGPT within its native search engine Bing. OpenAI's ChatGPT initiative leverages deep learning via Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create new content that is virtually indistinguishable from human-created content. To do so, GANs use two types of neural networks, where a generator creates new content while a discriminator evaluates that content and then provides feedback to the generator. In this way, GANs progressively self-evolve.

We noted in a post last week that Microsoft and OpenAI have entered into a unique sort of partnership. The tech giant announced back in January 2023 that it was investing an additional $10 billion in OpenAI, bringing its total investments in the revolutionary company to $13 billion. In return for providing this funding, as well as access to its cloud-computing service Azure, Microsoft has received rights to 75 percent of OpenAI's profits until the tech giant is able to recoup the entirety of its $13 billion investment. Thereafter, Microsoft will receive 49 percent of OpenAI's profits until these returns reach the $92 billion mark, after which Microsoft's shares will revert to OpenAI's non-profit foundation.

Recently, Google Cloud invested $300 million in the AI startup Anthropic. Under the terms of the deal, Anthropic will leverage Google Cloud's hardware to train its AI systems. In return, Google will receive a 10 percent stake in the company.