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The list of countries where its available is here: https://developers.google.com/opal/faq

Not a single EU country, so, yes.

It's been available in Vietnam for around 2 weeks now. So maybe it's a privacy thing in the EU?

Honestly though you're not missing much, it doesn't feel revolutionary.

> Join Discord -- Unexpected to see this from a Google product

I did a trial of Gemini Enterprise last month - a product absolutely not ready to be released - and they use Slack which also surprised me. So maybe internal teams at Google are allowed to choose their own messaging platform?

Slack is expected as Kubernetes/Cloud-Native/CNCF already used Slack. They also had extensive set of bots and integrations, including GitHub workflows too.

TIL, Google Labs use discord :)

Just short of 300k members on discord (almost 17k online) at the time of writing this. It's their Google Labs discord.