With the field of artificial intelligence (AI) now becoming a major battleground among tech companies, Internet giant Google revealed on Thursday, Feb. 8, that Bard, its AI solution, will now become known as Gemini.
This year’s e-Conomy SEA report from Google, Temasek and Bain & Company, said the Philippine digital economy is set to continue its double-digit growth by 2025, making the Philippines one of the fastest-growing digital economies in Southeast Asia.
With new breakthroughs in generative AI, Google said it is reimagining what a search engine can do and is bringing these powerful new capabilities to Search in a bold and responsible way.
With the new update, Bard can now pull real time and personal user information from Google apps and services, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights and Hotels.
Miguel Aliño Lopez, an international consultant at the International Trade Centre (ITC), has urged domestic micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to use various market research tools to access information and spot opportunities to expand their businesses worldwide.
With the new Cybersecurity Career Certificate, Google is working closely with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and is providing Cybersecurity Career Certificate scholarship for ICT practitioners in the government.
Google said it is removing the waitlist and opening up Bard to over 180 countries and territories worldwide including the Philippines — with more coming soon.
The country is also part of the top ten in the world searching for “disinformation” and “fact-checking” as topics. This means that more Filipinos are getting curious and would like to understand more about these important issues, Google said.
In 2022, Google blocked more than 24 million ads and over 300,000 pages were demonetized for promoting harmful health claims regarding Covid-19 and spread misinformation on a host of other topics.
Google, together with the Globe Group, has announced that it is providing Google Career Certificate scholarships to the members of the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce (PLCC).
