Google's Gemini is expected to be back in a few weeks

A record-breaking drop in stock value, confusion among users and more has resulted in Google's generative model Gemini offering users questionable results.

Google plans to relaunch its UI tool that generates images of people in the next few weeks after temporarily halting it last week due to inaccuracies in some historical renderings, a Google executive said Monday. DeepMind by Demis Hassabis.

Alphabet's Google started offering an image generation option earlier this month through its Gemini AI model. Social media users successfully launched a wave of posts warning that Gemini AI creates historical images that are often inaccurate.

"Gemeni AI has been decommissioned while we fix this. We hope that it will be available soon, in a few weeks at the latest,” Hassabis said during a panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The tool is not "worked as we imagined", he added.

Alphabet shares fell 3.5% on Monday afternoon, the biggest hit to the benchmark S&P 500.

Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, Google has been trying to catch up with the still-first UI player, developing software that could compete with the Microsoft-backed company's software.

When Google released its generative chatbot named Bard a year ago, it shared inaccurate information about images of a planet outside Earth's solar system in a promotional video, causing its stock to drop by as much as 9 % at the time.

Bard was rebranded as Gemini earlier this month, and Google introduced paid subscriptions that users could opt-in to more advanced UI design.

"We are in the early stages of developing generative artificial intelligence, but if mistakes or inaccuracies remain, we will reach a point where people don't care.,” said Bob O'Donnell, principal analyst at TECHnalysis Research.