Google has enhanced Bard, its AI chat assistant, with the Imagen 2 model enabling users to create photorealistic images from text descriptions.

Bard's image generation feature supports over 40 languages, is available in more than 230 countries, and incorporates SynthID watermarks to promote responsible AI use.

The upgrade to Bard, known as Gemini Pro, improves the AI's abilities in understanding, summarizing, reasoning, and coding.

Google is testing ImageFX and other AI-driven tools within its AI Test Kitchen to further advance its conversational AI technology.

Bard's updates, which include safeguards against copyright infringement and explicit content, aim to make it a leading conversational AI, competitive with ChatGPT Plus.

Google has taken steps to distinguish AI-created imagery from human art and to prevent the misuse of AI in creating deepfakes by banning the generation of images of 'named people'.

The recent developments in Bard are part of Google's commitment to safe and ethical AI practices and enhance its offerings in image and audio generation.