https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/google-bard-update-ai > Google has upgraded its AI chatbot platform Bard to add extensions and boost the performance of the underlying foundation model. Built on top of its PaLM AI model, Bard now has the ability to search across other Google apps including YouTube and its Workspace productivity suite.  > Bard was launched in March as an experiment following the runaway success of ChatGPT from Microsoft-backed OpenAI. It is one of a number of chatbot platforms that can be used to generate natural language responses and answer questions.