Google Bard AI is now available for Workspace accounts

Following its launch in March, Google is now making its Bard AI software available to customers with Google Workspace accounts.

At launch, Bard suffered from some of the frequent restrictions on Google merchandise – Workspace customers weren’t invited to the occasion. It was a shocking transfer on Google’s half, particularly given the position that generative AI is set to soak up Workspace merchandise.

But now, Google is opening Bard as much as Workspace customers.

On the official Bard changelog right now, Google says that entry for Workspace accounts is now open. This would require Workspace admins to allow Bard for their domains, however at that time, these accounts will have the ability to entry Bard simply as shopper accounts can.

We have been in a position to verify, although, that the waitlist for Bard nonetheless applies to Workspace accounts. The choice to allow Bard isn’t displaying up on the area we examined simply but, both.

Access for Google Workspace accounts

• What: Google Workspace admins can now allow Bard for their domains, permitting their customers to entry Bard utilizing their Workspace accounts.
• Why: You can now use Bard to assist with work, analysis, or different enterprise wants, when signed into your administrator-enabled Google Workspace account.

In a separate weblog submit, Google explains that Bard settings for managed accounts can be rolling out within the “coming days” below “Early access apps,” as pictured beneath. For now, Bard would be the solely product below this setting, however Google says that others could also be added later.

More on Google Bard:

• Google Bard can now write, debug, and clarify code 
• Report: Googlers say Bard AI is ‘useless,’ ethics groups instructed ‘not to get in the way’
• Google’s subsequent Bard replace brings ‘more variety’ to drafts