CEO Sundar Pichai has decided to postpone the release of Google's next-generation multimodal AI 'Gemini', which is seen as a rival to GPT-4

Gemini , a next-generation multimodal model said to be under development by Google's AI development division Google DeepMind , has performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4, and is reported to be released in 2023. I did. However, according to IT news media The Information, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has postponed the release to next year.

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Google delays its ChatGPT 4 rival 'Gemini' until next year
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'Gemini', which Google DeepMind is developing, combines the technology of Google DeepMind's proud 'AlphaGo' and its advanced version 'AlphaGo Zero' with large-scale language models, such as Google Search, YouTube, Google Books, Google Scholar, etc. It is a next-generation multimodal AI that has been trained with a huge amount of data obtained from Google services and can handle multiple data such as text, audio, images, and videos.

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Cissy Chao, who is responsible for Google's chatbot AI Bard and Google Assistant, said of Gemini, ``For example, if I want to bake a cake, Gemini will show me a picture of how to make a three-layer cake. It draws three pictures. It's not just a picture on the internet. You can have a conversation with a human using not only text but also images .' This shows the high performance of Gemini.

The existence of Gemini itself was revealed by CEO Pichai at the keynote speech at Google I/O 2023 held in May 2023. ``Gemini is extremely efficient in integrating tools and APIs, and is built to enable innovations such as memory and planning,'' Pichai said.

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In November 2023, CEO Pichai commented, ``We are focused on releasing Gemini as quickly as possible, and we are in the process of completing the main and largest version of Gemini.'' The Gemini we are developing meets or exceeds OpenAI's GPT-4 standards in several respects.'

However, The Information reports that CEO Pichai has ordered the announcement events scheduled for early December 2023 in California, New York, and Washington to be postponed. The event was aimed at politicians and policy makers, but CEO Pichai decided to postpone the release because ``we found that the AI could not reliably process some non-English queries.'' is.

IT news site Interesting Engineering says, ``The release of Gemini may be one of the most important product releases in Google's history.Gemini moves from traditional search and the World Wide Web to a chatbot-based 'This will create a new internet that will be able to meet and exceed OpenAI, and it will also mean that Google can compete with, or even surpass, OpenAI.'