2023-05-11 09:23:38 ET
%Alphabet () has unveiled plans to upgrade its dominant Google search engine with advanced artificial intelligence (A.I.).
At its annual developer conference, Alphabet announced that its A.I.-powered %Chatbot called “Bard” will be added to the Google search engine and made available to people in more than 180 countries, and in more languages than just English.
Bard’s multilingual expansion will begin with Japanese and Korean before adding about 40 additional languages in coming months.
Alphabet is ready to expand its A.I. offerings with Google, which has been synonymous with online search for more than 20 years and serves as the pillar of a digital advertising business that generated $220 billion U.S. last year.
Google is rolling out its new A.I. search engine features three months after Microsoft’s Bing search engine added the chatbot %ChatGPT .
Alphabet also announced plans to add A.I. to its Gmail and translation applications, as well as to a photo editor program.
The Silicon Valley-based company has been under pressure to demonstrate how its Google search engine will maintain its leadership now that Microsoft has enhanced its Bing search engine with A.I. technology.
Alphabet also announced plans to add to Google a new filter called “Perspectives” that will focus on what people are saying online about whatever topic is entered into the search engine.
The new Perspectives feature will be placed alongside existing search filters for news, images, and video on Google.
Alphabet’s stock has declined 2% in the last 12 months to trade at $111.75 U.S. per share.