Google delays the launch of its response to ChatGPT4
Google has decided to postpone the launch of its ambitious Gemini AI model, which should rival OpenAI's GPT-4, until next year. This was reported by The Information, citing two sources familiar with the matter. They said Google CEO Sundar Pichai decided to delay launch events scheduled for next week in California, New York and Washington.
Google's multimodal competitor
The reason for the postponement is that Gemini, which is supposed to be a multimodal artificial intelligence model capable of understanding and generating text, images and other types of data, does not work well in languages other than English. Google engineers found that Gemini lags behind GPT-4 in multilingualism and needs further improvements. Google is already testing smaller versions of the Gemini, while the larger Gemini model is still in development.
This isn't the first time Google has delayed Gemini. Previously, it was reported that Google would postpone the cloud version of Gemini. Now, AI-powered products that were supposed to get a boost from Gemini, like the Bard chatbot, will have to wait until next year.
Google announced the Gemini at its I/O event, where it said the Gemini “features impressive multi-mode capabilities not seen in previous models.” Google also said that Gemini was designed to be "highly efficient in tool and API integrations" and to "enable future innovations, such as memory and scheduling." To attract third-party developers, Google plans to offer the Gemini in various sizes, including a lightweight “Gecko” version for mobile devices.
Now it remains to be known when Gemini will be activated and become part of the Google system, like Bard.
Why is Gemini so important to Google?
The launch of Gemini could be one of the most significant in Google's history. The AI model is set to demonstrate that Google can compete with or surpass OpenAI, while creating a new Internet where the flow of information shifts from traditional search and the world wide web to chatbots.
At the same time, Gemini's success would be a signal to the industry that OpenAI's GPT-4 is not the definitive benchmark, but that the underlying Transformer technology and scalability principle (more data, more training) still have room for progress.
Google has an advantage over OpenAI in terms of data and computation, but so far it has not yet exploited it, partly because Microsoft is collaborating with OpenAI.
In fact, since March 2023, no company, big tech or innovative startup, closed source or open source, has been able to release a model that comes close to the GPT-4. The market is instead flooded with language models at the GPT-3.5 level, a standard that now seems easily achievable.
The GPT-4 is much more advanced due to its larger, more complex, and more expensive architecture. GPT-4 uses many interconnected AI models rather than a single large model. Google Gemini is probably based on the same concept. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has already hinted at a timeline for the release of GPT-5, which will be much more advanced.
The complex architecture also comes with a high cost for inference, so OpenAI is trying to lower prices with models like the GPT-4 Turbo, even if that means sacrificing some quality.
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