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# Bird arrives

> A multi-agent AI lab partner with text chat, real-time voice and video conversation, and inline citations grounded in your workspace.

**Shipped 2026-02-06 · AI**

Bird is Bower's AI lab partner. It launches with three capabilities that
work together: a text chat that knows your workspace, a real-time voice
and video conversation mode, and an answer style that always cites the
source.

## What you can do today

* **Chat with Bird** — a persistent chat panel in the sidebar. Ask
  questions about your notes, ask Bird to summarise a collection,
  compare experiments, or pull a specific value from a transcript.
* **Live Mode** — a real-time voice and video session with Bird. Open
  Live Mode on your phone, point the camera at your bench, and talk to
  Bird while you work.
* **Inline citations** — every fact in Bird's answer is numbered and
  linked back to the specific note, attachment, or session it came from.
  No invented sources.
* **Multi-agent under the hood** — Bird is structured as a small team of
  specialised sub-agents (research, note-writing, root). Each one is
  tuned for its job, and Bird routes your question to the right one.
* **Session history** — chat threads persist. Rename, copy, or delete
  any prior session from a kebab menu on the chat list.

## Why this matters

Most AI assistants either know everything (and hallucinate) or know
nothing about you (and stay generic). Bird is built to know your
workspace specifically — your notes, protocols, attachments, and
conversation history — and to be honest about where its answers came
from. The citation discipline is the core of that honesty.

Bird only sees what's in your workspace. Bower runs Bird on Google's
Vertex AI — the data stays inside our perimeter and is not used to train
external models.

## Related docs

* [Bird, your AI assistant](/ai-and-search/bird-ai-assistant)
* [Live agent mode](/ai-and-search/live-agent-mode)