Deployment reach

Google opens Bard to the public in the US and UK

Google began public access to Bard in the United States and United Kingdom using a lightweight optimized LaMDA model while warning that the experiment could provide inaccurate responses.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM48confidence 96/100

Why it moved the index

Public rollout by a major platform materially expanded access to generative AI and intensified frontier deployment competition, despite limited geography and explicit reliability warnings.

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  1. R1
    Toward 48 · confidence 96

    New March 2023 mass-market conversational-AI deployment without an immutable model checkpoint.

    12 Aug 2026