Bard shows “PaLM2” in my answers, and it says “I can't create images yet so I'm not able to help you with that” when I ask it to do so, which Gemini ought to be able to since its transformer can output images.

I don’t think Bard is using Gemini Pro, perhaps because the rollout will be slow, but it is a bit of a blunder on Google’s part to indicate that it now uses it, since many will believe that this is the quality that Gemini assumes.