Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024; a source says the LLM doesn't reliably handle some non-English queries
Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
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Context & Ripple Effects
Google had moved from limited early access for a small group of companies to a less certain rollout timetable: the company had already warned some cloud customers to expect access in Q1 2024. This delay makes the gap between private testing and a broadly available product more consequential.
The reported language failures matter because Gemini was positioned as a rival to OpenAI's leading model; a public launch would expose reliability issues across a wider, multilingual user base.
First-order effects
Google postpones Gemini's public availability to January 2024, extending the period in which prospective users and customers cannot evaluate the model broadly.
The reported weakness on some non-English queries makes multilingual reliability an immediate release-quality gate for Gemini.
Second-order effects
Cloud customers whose access was already expected in Q1 face a more compressed or uncertain transition from the earlier small-company preview to usable product access.
A delayed public debut gives competing conversational-AI products more time to build user and developer adoption while Google works on release readiness.
Third-order effects
If frontier-model launches increasingly hinge on performance consistency across languages, release schedules will be shaped as much by evaluation and deployment safeguards as by headline model capability.
The episode points to a more staged model-access market, where private trials and enterprise timelines can diverge from public-launch messaging.
The trend: Frontier AI releases are becoming gated rollouts in which reliability across real-world use cases determines when model capability can be commercialized.
I'd like to imagine there's fight inside Googleplex by a mom and a kid going hellbent on stopping Gemini from going online while the AI is actively chasing them down
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@Techmeme — asked Bing AI to do something ... added “por favor” at the end of my request ... only to be told that it would not handle a task in a different language than the original question 🙄
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Bindu Reddy on x
Interesting! Apparently, Google's Gemini is as good as GPT-4 in “some respects.” However, they are holding back so they can improve in other languages!! 🤯🤯 What even!! They are so far behind ChatGPT right now that they should be shipping ASAP 🚢 Ship quickly and early, and... [ima…
@dimillian
Thomas Ricouard on x
ChatGPT is global. We all knows how google rollout product. It'll probably be in soft rollout for 6 months and then US only for 3 years and then killed. It's doomed on arrival. They probably know how to do AI but they forgot how to do product.
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Bertrand Duflos on x
Is Google... lagging behind? Or is it just that the pressure for “safety” of AI models is becoming so strong that it slows down the rollout of new models?
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It's probably for the best. Gemini is likely going to be leagues behind OpenAI. It continues to amaze me just how much Google dropped the ball on AI. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
@sebastiannehrd2
Sebastian Nehrdich on x
But I appreciate googles dedication to other languages. The bias towards English in OpenAI's models, both regarding performance as well as costs, is a big problem. I am looking very much forward to Gemini!
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Jon Victor on x
New: Google quietly scrapped a set of Gemini launch events planned for next week, delaying the model's release to early next year. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... w/ @amir
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Google Postpones Big AI Launch as OpenAI Zooms Ahead (The Information)