04/12/2023
🚀 Google's highly-anticipated Gemini AI faces a slight delay, now set for a January launch. Originally unveiled at Google I/O 2023, the company postponed it to Q1 2024, aiming to outshine OpenAI's GPT-4. Sundar Pichai cancels upcoming Gemini events due to reported challenges, particularly in handling non-English queries.
🌐 The delay places Google in catch-up mode with OpenAI. Pichai, during an earnings call, hints at Gemini as the foundation for a series of next-gen models throughout 2024. The focus is on a multimodal approach, emphasizing efficiency with tool and API integrations, and varying sizes and capabilities. Gemini is slated for immediate internal use across Google's products and will be extended to developers and cloud customers through Vertex AI.
💡 In contrast, Google's ChatGPT counterpart, Bard, struggles for traction, while ChatGPT boasts over 100 million weekly users, contributing crucial data for OpenAI's product enhancements. Despite internal changes at OpenAI, Google's opportunity to release Gemini amidst the chaos has passed. AWS has already introduced its Q chatbot, leaving Google as the last major player in this competitive space.
