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- Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a companywide memo viewed by CNBC that it will need all employees to test its AI chatbot, Bard, “in the spirit of an internal hackathon.”
- Pichai also said the company would soon begin enlisting developers and enterprises to test an API based on the same underlying LaMDA technology.
- Google faced pressure from employees and investors to come up with an answer to ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI that took the public by storm after it launched last year.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. 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.