Google Postpones Big AI Launch as OpenAI Zooms Ahead

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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 Google’s most important product launch of the year, after it strained its computing resources and merged large teams in an urgent pursuit of OpenAI.

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