Google releases API that lets developers create generative AI chatbots

Google has announced Generative AI App Builder, software that enables companies and other organizations to create chatbots, search engines and digital assistants with generative AI, for example. The App Builder requires ‘little’ technical knowledge.

With the Generative AI App Builder developers get API access to Google’s models and templates to build your own apps. In addition, they can create apps that support users, recommend or discover products, and create media. Developers can also integrate their own data with Google’s models, keeping that data private, Google says.

For example, developers could use the App Builder to create an alternative to Google’s AI chatbot Bard, but they could also create generative AI apps that take speech or images as input, and can deliver text, speech and other media back to the user. Google states that the AI ​​apps can not only provide content, but can also link users to, for example, payment systems or people in order to complete a purchase.

Google states that the API allows developers to create generative AI apps relatively quickly. Normally this would take ‘weeks to years’; with Generative AI App Builder, this would take “minutes to hours,” according to Google. Google also provides Vertex AI with an upgrade that allows it to handle generative AI. For the time being, only ‘trusted testers’ can get started with the Generative AI App Builder and generative AI within Vertex AI. Both Vertex AI and the Generative AI App Builder are under Google Cloud.

Generative AI is important to Google. For example, the company would like all major products to receive some form of generative AI within a few months. On Tuesday, the company announced that Gmail and Docs testers will be able to use the first generative AI features this month. For example, users can ask Docs to write a vacancy text.