Google rebrands its Bard AI chatbot as Gemini, which now has its own Android app

Just as Microsoft renamed Bing Chat to Copilot to unify its generative AI branding, Google is doing the same thing with Bard and Duet AI. The services now bear the name Gemini, after Google's multimodal AI model. The name change leaked earlier this month. Google has also debuted a dedicated Gemini Android app alongside a paid version of the chatbot that has more enhanced capabilities. "Bard has been the best way for people to directly experience our most capable models," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post.