Google will not see the technology of Astra projectits vast effort to create AI applications and “agents“For a multimodal understanding in real time, until next year at the earliest.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the calendar of remarks when calling Google winnings on Tuesday. “(Google is) creating experiences in which AI can see and reasons of the world around you”, he said. “The ASTRA project is an overview of this future. We work to send experiences like this from 2025. ”
Project Astra, which Google demonstrated during its conference on I / O developers in May 2024, encompasses a range of technologies, from smartphone applications that can recognize the world around them and answer related questions to AI assistants who can perform actions on behalf of a user.
In a pre -recorded demo during the E / S, Google showed an Astra Project prototype answering questions about things for the camera of a smartphone, as in which district a user could be in or the name of a room on a broken bike.
Information reported This month, Google planned to launch an experience of agent focused on consumer in December – a capable of buying a product, reserving a flight and other tasks of this type. It now seems unlikely – unless the experience in question has been divorced from the ASTRA project.
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