Google delays launch of conversational AI bot ‘Gemini’ to January: report

Google has delayed the public release 🅘of its hotl♈y anticipated conversational artificial intelligence tool “Gemini” until next month due to concerns about its performance, according to a report Monday.

The decision to bump the product launch, which will compete directly with OpenAI’s🐟 ChatGPT, came after Google researchers found that Gemini “didn’t reliably handle some non-English queries,” , citing sources familiar with the matter.

Google had planned to roll out Gemini at a series of debut events slated to take place later this month in New York, Washington, DC, and California, the report said. Google boss Sundar Pichai opted to ca💜ncel those events.

Prior to its cancellation, the event in Washington was intended to serve as a showcase of Google’s burgeoning AI initiatives for US lawmakers at a time when the government is increasingly looking at ways to regulate the technology.

♎Google did not💧 immediately return a request for comment on the delay.

A December launch would have been a rare occurrence for Google, which generall💎y💟 does not schedule major product releases during this time of year.

Gemini has been described as a collection of large-language models, meaning it is trained using endless r🐎eams of internet data. Once ready, Gemini will be able to handle a vast array of user prompts, from standard text and image inquiries to software coding and beyond.

Th⛦e advanced AI tool is expected to provide a boost to Google’s existing products, including its current Bard AI chatbot and its sear✱ch engine.

So far, Google has been largely mum ab💛out Gemini’s purported capabilities.

Last May, as a “next-genera♔tion foundation model.” The company said Gemini would be “available at various sizes and capabilities” once it was “finꦗe-tuned and rigorously tested for safety.”

OpenAI recently dealt with its own upheaval after its board of directors shockingly voted to oust Sam Altman as CEO.

After days of frantic negotiations, Altman returned to the role late last month, while OpenAI unveiled a revamped board of directors that includes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and ex-Twℱitter chair Bret Taylor.

Despite its interna𒀰l turmoil, Microsoft-backed OpenAI remains the industry leader in AI development.ཧ

ChatGPT has amassed more than 100 million actively weekly users sinc♍e launch roughly one year ago, according to Altman.