Google is killing off Bard and rebranding it as Gemini. Google Assistant, Google's rather successful answer to Apple's Siri, may also follow this path, when in January it gets rid of 17 features.
Google's ambition with Gemini is to gather all the capabilities - text, audio, video and images - in one tool. In theory, Gemini can perform a variety of tasks, from transcribing speech to captioning photos and videos to producing artwork. However, much like Bard's hasty launch, Gemini also seems to have come out of the oven a bit before it was fully baked.