A recent leak suggests that the release of Google Bard’s Advanced tier may occur sooner than anticipated, and that it won’t be free either.
Actually, it’s not really a “leak” as much as the corporation put a number of hints on its website that, with some effort, anyone could locate. That’s how X (the site formerly known as Twitter) developer Bedros Pamboukian discovered coding hints pointing to the impending release of Bard Advanced. The revelation is intriguing since it indicates that Google One will come with the enhanced AI, and if you purchase a subscription, you may test it out for three months for free.
Bard Advanced is a little bit of a buzz because it will be powered by Google’s most advanced Gemini Ultra model. The company claims in a December announcement post that Gemini Ultra is made to handle “extremely complex tasks and accept multimodal inputs.” Another leak from user Dylan Roussel on X suggests that the chatbot will have “advanced math and reasoning skills,” which supports this theory.
It’s unclear if there will be a new Google One tier for Bard Advanced or which one users will need to purchase in order to obtain access. A price is not revealed by either leak. If I had to guess, though, I might have to go with the $10/month Premium plan. It seems reasonable that Google would set a high entry barrier given the level of interest in AI.
Possible characteristics
Returning to the Roussel leak, it discloses numerous further capabilities that Google Bard might or might not get. Either way, “they may never land at all” or things could change.
First, the AI’s tool might make it feasible to build personalized bots. Regarding them, not much information exists. We’re not sure what they do or whether they can be shared. All we know is that the bots go by the pseudonym Motoko collectively.
It looks like Bard will get a few more tools after that. You have Gallery, which is a collection of freely accessible prompts on various subjects that visitors can peruse to generate ideas. Tasks comes next. Although Roussel acknowledges that he was unable to locate much information about it, he believes that it will be “used to manage long-running tasks such as” picture generation.
In relation to creating photos, the third capability enables users to design foregrounds and backgrounds for mobile phone screens as well as website banners. It is said that the final one, Power Up, can enhance text prompts. Again, there’s not a lot of information available. No idea how to create the backgrounds, if that’s even possible, or even how to power up a text prompt. Definitely isn’t easy to say.
It is unlikely that users will have to wait long to see the whole picture. These were concealed on Google’s website, so the official release must be approaching soon.
Artificial intelligence is expected to have a significant impact in 2024, particularly in light of products like Google Bard and ChatGPT. See our analysis of ChatGPT vs. Google Bard on TechRadar to find out which one we believe will win.