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- Google is supercharging its Assistant app with Bard's capabilities.
- The new "Assistant with Bard" is designed to merge the voice assistant with the chatbot.
- "We're moving away from voice as the primary modality," the Google vice president Sissie Hsiao said.
Google Assistant and Bard are starting to merge.
The company announced Wednesday that it was planning to bring its Bard AI chatbot into the Assistant app and experience, starting on mobile devices.
The result, a new experience Google has named "Assistant with Bard," sees Google making its existing voice assistant more personalized by effectively placing Bard inside it.