Last year at Google I/O, one of the most interesting demos was Project Astra, an early version of a multimodal AI that could recognize your surroundings in real-time and answer questions about them ...

Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company's low latency, multimodal AI experience — will power an array of new experiences in Search, the Gemini AI app, and ...

When Google first showcased its Duplex voice assistant technology at its developer conference in 2018, it was both impressive and concerning. Today, at I/O 2024, the company may be bringing up those ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google I/O 2024 has been, to nobody's surprise, all about AI. For most of Tuesday's two-hour keynote, Google talked up AI ...

“Astra” is one of the most ambitious projects Google is working on. It aims to become the foundation for AI-powered Gemini assistants for mobile devices. The company demonstrated the project’s ...

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Google won't ship tech from Project Astra, its wide-ranging effort to build AI apps and “agents” for real-time, multimodal understanding, until next year at the earliest. Google CEO Sundar Pichai ...

Project Astra, an AI assistant that can understand video and audio and answer questions in real time. In a new video released on December 11th local time, you can see people using Astra in all sorts ...

Google has revealed Project Astra at its I/O developer conference. This will allow users to point their phone cameras at the world around them to quickly get answers from a chatbot. Expect some ...