Google unveils AI updates at Google I/O, showing off creativity

This week, Google's annual developer conference will feature its hefty investments in artificial intelligence. In the coming months, PaLM 2 will be released.

The company will unveil PaLM 2, its most recent and advanced LLM, at Google I/O. Over 100 languages are included in PaLM 2 and it operates under the internal codename 'Unified Language Model'. It also performs coding, math, and creative writing tests.

At the event, Google will make announcements on the theme of how AI is “helping people reach their full potential,” including “generative experiences” to Bard and Search, the documents show. Pichai will be speaking to a live crowd of developers as he pitches his company’s AI advancements.

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PaLM was first announced by Google in April 2022. In March of this year, the company launched an API for PaLM alongside a number of AI enterprise tools it says will help businesses “generate text, images, code, videos, audio, and more from simple natural language prompts.”

CNBC has seen internal documents indicating the company is working on a multi-modal version called "Multi-Bard," which uses a larger data set and solves complex math and coding problems. Also tested are the "Big Bard" and "Giant Bard."

In addition to discussing template generation in Sheets and image generation in Slides and Meet, Google plans on expanding its "Workspace AI collaborator." Google announced in March that it would test AI capabilities in Gmail and Google Docs, with plans to add generative AI to Meet, Sheets, and Slides.