With Bard’s latest Update, Nigerian users can now access Gemini Pro and generate AI images

Google announced that it is bringing Bard’s latest capabilities — including Gemini Pro in Bard — to more languages and places including Nigeria. The technology giant is also launching image generation to bring more of your ideas into reality.

In December 2023, Google integrated Gemini Pro into Bard in English, enhancing Bard’s comprehension, reasoning, summarization, and coding capabilities. Today, Gemini Pro in Bard is expanding its availability to over 40 languages and more than 230 countries and territories including Nigeria, allowing a broader audience to engage with this swifter and more proficient version of Bard.

To enhance a user’s creativity, Bard now offers image generation in English across most countries globally, and it’s completely free. This innovative feature is driven by Google’s improved Imagen 2 model, carefully crafted to achieve a balance between quality and speed, resulting in high-quality and photorealistic outputs. So, we, at Innovation Village, decided to give it a try. We input a description – “Create a punk rock rabbit riding a bike”, and Bard produced the following images.

Google added that the image generation is consistent with AI principles. In their words, “Consistent with our AI Principles, image generation was designed with responsibility in mind. For instance, to ensure there’s a clear distinction between visuals created with Bard and original human artwork, Bard uses SynthID to embed digitally identifiable watermarks into the pixels of generated images.”

“Our technical guardrails and investments in the safety of training data seek to limit violent, offensive or sexually explicit content. Additionally, we apply filters designed to avoid the generation of images of named people. We’ll continue investing in new techniques to improve the safety and privacy protections of our models.”