Google has decided to postpone the launch of its ambitious Gemini AI model, which is expected to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, to next year. The Information reported this, quoting two sources aware of the matter. They said that Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the call to delay the launch events scheduled for next week in California, New York, and Washington.
The reason for the postponement is that Gemini, which is supposed to be a multimodal AI model that can understand and generate text, images, and other types of data, is performing poorly in languages other than English. Google engineers found that Gemini lags behind GPT-4 in multilingualism and needs more improvement. Google is already testing smaller versions of Gemini, while the large Gemini model is still under development.
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