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 ...

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The technology powering Gemini Live’s camera and screen sharing is called Project Astra. It’s available as an Android app for trusted testers, and Google today unveiled agentic capabilities for ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

As usual, Google I/O 2024 is an absolute whirlwind of news and announcements. This year, rather than focusing on hardware, Android, or Chrome, Google spent most of this year’s developers’ conference ...