Google’s next Gemini Pro is months behind schedule as coding capabilities fall short of internal goals

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Google is months behind on its flagship Gemini Pro upgrade as coding falls short, frustrating engineers who are leaving for Anthropic.

Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been unable to close the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI, which have both released models that outperform Google’s current offerings in writing code. Alphabet shares slipped more than three percent on the news.

Late last month, Google updated the data used to train Gemini in an attempt to improve its coding abilities, but the results were disappointing, according to one of the people Bloomberg spoke with. Both OpenAI and Meta recently released new models...

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