Google’s new AI tool lets you make chess as weird as you want it – for free [Video]

Google is always developing fun, experimental AI use cases and letting users explore them on its Google Labs platform. Its latest experiment allows users to reimagine chess using Google’s text-to-image generation technology.

Last week, Google launched GenChess, a Labs web experiment that enables users to transform traditional chess pieces into anything they imagine using a text prompt, powered by a combination of Gemini Flash and Google’s latest AI model, Imagen 3. Like all of the Google Labs experiments, GenChess is free to use.

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The custom chess pieces can be as elaborate or as simple as users want, with Google examples including a cactus, poodle, egg, tennis ball, rubber ducky, cactus, fuzzy pieces, and more, as seen below. Users can then use the newly designed chess pieces to play against virtual opponents.

To get started, visit the GenChess standalone site…