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- Lines of code showing Bard’s integration with Google Assistant were found in the Google app.
- It appears that Google could swap out Assistant’s logo with Bard’s star logo.
- The onboarding progress appears to bring up a prompt to “Upgrade to the new Assistant powered by Bard.”
During its Pixel event on October 4, Google announced that it would bring Google Assistant and its generative AI chatbot together to create “Assistant with Bard.” Now we’re getting our first look at what this new AI-powered version of Assistant could look like.
The folks over at TheSpAndroid, with help from AssembleDebug, have discovered some code hiding in the beta version of the Google app. It appears beta version 14.41.41.28.arm64 contains a few lines of code related to Bard’s integration with Assistant. The outlet was also able to activate Assistant’s new feature, although it was not fully functional.