Presenting Gemini With One AI Face: Google Bard and Duet Are Renamed Gemini

What Google’s Shift in AI Branding Brings To The AI World

A significant change in Google’s AI lineup was announced yesterday. Google announced that its ChatGPT competitor Bard and its AI assistant Duet are being renamed Gemini.

According to the formerly Bard update page, Google felt that its commitment “to giving everyone direct access to Google AI” should reflect how “every Gemini user across our supported countries and languages has access to Google’s best family of AI models.” To better reflect Google’s investment, the decision was made to rename Bard to Gemini.

Bard is Google’s conversational genAI assistant, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It was introduced in February last year and opened up to users the following March. By May Bard was available in 180 territories. Bard offers users online access to AI to generate image and text context based on user prompts. Updates and new features, such as image recognition were rolled out since the completion of the rollout.

Meanwhile, Gemini launched last December as a new-and-improved LLM model for Bard. It was developed to be multimodal, meaning it can generalize, understand, and operate seamlessly across different types of information, including text…