You're right. How naive of me.

I mean Bard barely lasted a year. Arguably Gemini is just a rebrand of Bard, but Bard is still dead.

lol already forgot about bard like it was ancient history

If you look at web traffic when making Gemini web requests, you'll see that Bard is still in the URL (so are LaMDA (pre-bard) and Assistant (pre-GenAI)):

gemini.google.com/_/BardChatUi/data/assistant.lamda.BardFrontendService/StreamGenerate

That's interesting! I wonder how many parts of their other dead projects are used in current projects.

Didn't they also just shut down Vertex and Gemini APIs to launch a new unified API this week?

Finally that turf war ends

I can't find any news about this. That's not wholly unusual given the context. Do you have a link?

Bing Chat suffered the same fate

Tbh I never even heard of that!