Google CEO Issues Rallying Cry in Internal Memo: All Hands on Deck To Test ChatGPT Competitor Bard

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. From a report: He also said Google will soon be enlisting help from partners to test an application programming interface, or API, that would let others access the same underlying technology. The internal memo came shortly after Pichai publicly announced Google's new conversation technology, powered by artificial intelligence, which it will begin rolling out in the coming weeks. Google has faced pressure from investors and employees to compete with ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which took the public by storm when it launched late last year.

'Next week, we'll be enlisting every Googler to help shape Bard and contribute through a special company-wide dogfood,' Pichai wrote in the email to employees that was viewed by CNBC. 'We're looking forward to getting all of your feedback -- in the spirit of an internal hackathon -- more details coming soon,' he wrote. Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a version of its own search engine, Bing, that will use ChatGPT to answer users' search queries. Microsoft is holding its own event Tuesday with participation from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. 'It's early days, we need to ship and iterate and we have a lot of hard and exciting work ahead to build these technologies into our products and continue bringing the best of Google Al to improve people's lives,' Pichai wrote in his note to employees Monday. 'We've been approaching this effort with an intensity and focus that reminds me of early Google -- so thanks to everyone who has contributed.'

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