Google’s Bard launched in Ireland as new software latest to join growing AI landscape

The Google Bard website. The chatbot can generate responses in more than 40 languages, including Chinese and Hindi, and was launched in around 180 countries prior to its release in the EU.

Alphabet Inc’s Google released its chatbot, Bard, to Ireland and the rest of the European Union this week.

It is the latest rival of the now widely-popular ChatGPT, which broke the record last January for having the fastest-growing user base in history, exceeding 100 million in just two months.