The Biggest AI News From Google’s I/O 2023 Keynote

Today, Google held its annual developer conference Google I/O ‘23 in Mountain View, California. This year, CEO Sundar Pichai and a roster of other executive leaders spent close to two hours dropping announcement after announcement about their deeping investments in generative AI technology. 

The company has been largely silent about its AI developments since it announced Bard, its rival to the ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, in February. But Google roared back onto the AI scene today by announcing big updates to Bard, which is now powered by PaLM 2: the successor to the language learning model that originally powered the tool. It announced a second new LLM titled Gemini as well as deeper AI integrations within Google search, the Google Workspace suites and even how it’s offering AI to enterprises. Speakers at the event also addressed how Google is working to curb disinformation and harmful outputs generated by AI in its products. 

The Alphabet company made a lot of exciting…