After the timid launch of Bard, which was publicly announced in February and whose beta opened only in the United States and the United Kingdom in late March, We expect relevant news in this regard during Google I/O 2023, which will be held next week. It is not surprising that at the beginning of the year everything indicated that it would be at the company’s developer event that it would show its plans in relation to artificial intelligence in response to ChatGPT. However, the agility Microsoft showed with the new Bing set off all the alarms and forced them to move their plans forward.

A few days ago we learned about the departure of Geoffry Hinton from Google, the eminence in the world of artificial intelligence, so that he could openly warn about the risks associated with AI, although he also made it clear that in his opinion (and it’s not just any opinion, after all, we’re talking about to a person who resigned from a more than remarkable job), «Google behaved very responsiblywhich gives us an explanation the speed with which the company addresses Bard deployments. Not to forget that the chatbot reviews from some of the company’s employees are not particularly positive.

Now, with more or less reasons and more or less laudable ones, it is clear that Google must hit the table, and that it must do so as soon as possible. And given the boom in models and chatbots we’ve seen in recent months, it seems clear that offering just one more chatbot isn’t enough anymore. The key is that it stands out from the rest, both in terms of functionality, reliability, and of course also in integrations of the same.

In this regard, as we can read in 9to5Google, it seems that the search engine will play a very interesting trick, because Google is working on a Bard widget for the Google Pixel home screen. According to the information that this medium has, the said widget could be compatible with any Android device, but in the current state of development, it is configured to work exclusively on Google smartphones.

How can we interpret this? Several new smartphones from the company will be announced next week, including the long-awaited and finally confirmed Pixel Fold. So, and given that Bard is still in preview (and will more than likely stay that way for a while, even if more access is allowed), we can think that the first deployment of this future widget It is used as an element that gives your devices more added value.

However, it’s clear that the company’s interest is in getting as many users as possible to use Bard, especially since Bing no longer has a waiting list. Therefore, we can take for granted that in the medium term this widget will eventually reach all Android users. It remains to be seen when that will happen..