After Microsoft's Bing, Google is set to release its AI-powered Search next month

The new features, under the project name "Magi", are being created by designers, engineers, and executives at the company.

A Google spokeswoman said in a statement that "not every brainstorm deck or product idea leads to a launch, but as we've said before, we're excited about bringing new AI-powered features to search, and will share more details soon".

Google's chatbot called Bard was released in March to a limited number of users in the US and the UK.

Bard, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, is based on a large language model (LLM), specifically a lightweight and optimised version of LaMDA, which the tech giant said will be updated with newer, more capable models in the future.

Users can interact with Bard by asking questions and refining their responses with follow-up questions.

However, Bard has a long way to go to catch up with ChatGPT and GPT-4.