Google Bard “Extensions” Are Here — This is Huge!

Jim Clyde Monge
Generative AI
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4 min readSep 20, 2023

Google Bard “Extensions” Are Here — This is Huge!

Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, has been around for a while now, but it has been lagging behind its more popular competitor, ChatGPT.

Today, Google is trying to make Bard cool again with the release of a new feature called “extensions.”

Bard release of a new feature called “extensions”.
Google Bard extensions

Extensions were previewed at this year’s Google I/O event.

Today we’re launching Bard Extensions in English, a completely new way to interact and collaborate with Bard. With Extensions, Bard can find and show you relevant information from the Google tools you use every day — like Gmail, Docs, Drive, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights and hotels — even when the information you need is across multiple apps and services.

Although some users are reportedly seeing third-party extensions, only Google services are visible on my side.

Google Bard extensions
Google Bard extensions

Supported Google services:

  • Google Flights
  • Google Hotels
  • Google Maps

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How cool is that?

I'm guessing Google will apply the features on this article to Google Assistant. So far, there's no news on releasing a standalone Bard mobile application

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Thank you for pointing this out!

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Bard's main advantages continue to be that is is (a) available and (b) free. That said, it's still a work in progress and there are many features that it's lacking. In a world where people like to post videos that ramble on for an hour to cover…...

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