Unlike its viral rival ChatGPT, it can access up-to-date information from the internet and has a "Google it" button which accesses search. Google has been a slower and more cautious runner in the generative AI race with its version, Bard, which launches in the US and UK to begin with. It helped Google write its own announcement, said the firm's Sissie Hsiao and Eli Collins, who were also co-authors of the launch blog post