Google Bard – the generative AI the search big launched following the success of Microsoft’s Bing Chat – may quickly be coming to your Google Pixel smartphone by way of a house display widget.

Microsoft and Google are engaged in an AI search engine battle, and with Microsoft having taken an early lead – Bing Chat is obtainable on PC and cell by way of an app, and is mostly performing higher than Bard – Google is eager to catch up.

Just a few latest updates have helped Bard grow to be higher at math, and improved Bard’s coding talents – and now Google reportedly desires to include Bard into its smartphones.

In keeping with 9to5Google (opens in new tab), code discovered within the Android app recordsdata teases the arrival of a house display widget for Bard – although it’s at present unclear precisely how the widget will operate. It may very well be a brand new standalone icon, or it may very well be integrated into the prevailing Google Search app’s widget; we additionally don’t know if the Bard widget will supply all the identical providers because the browser model, but it surely ought to a minimum of supply Pixel smartphone customers a neater method to entry the Google AI.

That stated, there isn’t any assure that this code means we’ll see a Google Bard widget within the close to future, and even in any respect. However with Google I/O 2023 coming quickly, and Bard prone to characteristic closely at that occasion, it is doable that we’ll study extra about this leaked widget then.

Unique to Pixel 

One different facet to this leak is that Bard is at present set to be unique to Pixel telephones, together with the Google Pixel 6, Google Pixel 7, and possibly the Google Pixel Fold, which Google simply introduced. So for those who personal probably the greatest Android telephones that is not a Pixel, you’ll seemingly be unable to entry the Bard widget right away.

This wouldn’t be the primary time Google has made its personal providers unique to its smartphones. The now-shuttered Google Stadia was initially solely playable on cell for those who had a Pixel telephone – an element that won’t have helped its early recognition, as Pixel telephones weren’t round in enormous numbers then.

Hopefully, Bard gained’t find yourself like Stadia – being unceremoniously canceled when the corporate will get bored of funding it – however we’ll have to attend and see.

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