Alphabet to unveil A.I. updates at Google I/O, showing off creative writing and coding capabilities

Artificial
intelligence
is
going
to
be
a
central
theme
at


Google’s
annual
developer
conference
on
Wednesday,
as
the
company
is
planning
to
announce
a
number
of
generative
AI
updates,
including
launching
a
general-use
large
language
model
(LLM),
CNBC
has
learned.

According
to
internal
documents
about
Google
I/O
viewed
by
CNBC,
the
company
will
unveil
PaLM
2,
its
most
recent
and
advanced
LLM.
PaLM
2
includes
more
than
100
languages
and
has
been
operating
under
the
internal
codename
“Unified
Language
Model.”
It’s
also
performed
a
broad
range
of
coding
and
math
tests
as
well
as
creative
writing
tests
and
analysis.

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.

The
updates
come
as
competition
ramps
up
in
the
AI
arm’s
race,
with
Google
and


Microsoft
racing
to
incorporate
chat
AI
technology
into
their
products.
Microsoft
is
using
its
investment
in
ChatGPT
creator
OpenAI
to
bolster
its
Bing
search
engine,
while
Google
has
quickly

mobilized
to
try
and
incorporate
its
Bard
technology
and
its
own
LLM
across
various

teams.

Google
first
announced
the
PaLM
language
model
in
April
of
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.” 

Last
month,
Google

said
its
medical
LLM
called
“Med-PaLM
2”
can
answer
medical
exam
questions
at
an
“expert
doctor
level”
and
is
accurate
85%
of
the
time.

Google
also
plans
to
share
advancements
to
Bard
and
Search
with
“generative
experiences,”
including
Bard
being
used
for
coding,
math
and
“logic”
as
well
as
expansions
to
Japanese
and
Korean
languages,
the
documents
show.

The company
has
been
working
on
a
series
of
more
powerful
Bard
models,
and
officially

launched
the
tool
as
an
experiment
in
March.

Internally,
the
company
has
worked
on
a
multi-modal
version
called
“Multi-Bard,”
which
uses
a
larger
data
set
and
solves
complex
math
and
coding
programs,
according
to
separate
documentation
viewed
by
CNBC.
The
company
has
also
tested
versions
called
“Big
Bard”
and
“Giant
Bard.”

Google
also
plans
on
expanding
on
its
“Workspace
AI
collaborator,”
including
discussing
template
generation
in
Sheets
and
image
generation
in
its
Slides
and
Meet
products.
In
March,
the
company
said
it
would
be

giving
access
to
AI
capabilities
in
Gmail
and
Google
Docs
to
a
small
number
of
users
as
part
of
a
test,
with
plans
to
bring
additional
generative
AI
features
to
its
Meet,
Sheets
and
Slides
applications.

One
image,
viewed
by
CNBC,
showed
a
Slides
sidebar
with
a
chat
box
that
allowed
a
user
to
enter
text
with
the
option
to
“create”
an
image
based
on
the
words.

Additional
updates
include
use
cases
to
image
recognition
tool
Google
Lens.
The
company
will
show
advancements
to
“multi-search”
for
camera
and
voice,
after
last
year
allowing
users
to
ask
questions
about
what
they’re
viewing
in
images.

Outside
of
the
AI
sphere,
Google
will
show
off
its
new
foldable
phone,
The
Pixel
Fold,
as

CNBC
previously
reported.
The
company
claims
the
Pixel
Fold
will
have
“the
most
durable
hinge
on
a
foldable”
phone
and
will
offer
a
phone
trade-in
option.
Google
plans
to
market
the
Pixel
Fold
as
water-resistant
and
pocket-sized.

A
Google
spokesperson
didn’t
immediately
respond
to
a
request
for
comment.

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