Google Postpones Big AI Launch as OpenAI Zooms Ahead

Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI, to January, two people with knowledge of the decision said.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently decided to scrap a series of Gemini events, originally scheduled for next week in California, New York and Washington, after the company found the AI didn’t reliably handle some non-English queries, one of these people said. The planned events, which hadn’t been publicized, would have marked …

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