Google announced Project Astra at Google I/O 2024 earlier this year. Under the project, the company aims to bring the multimodal AI language on devices like smartphones and smart glasses that will allow users to interact with their surroundings using text, voice and photos/ videos. Recently, CEO Sundar Pichai shared a video, demonstrating what the universal AI assistant can do.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Pichai wrote “Here’s a peek at the future: Project Astra, our prototype showing glimmers of a universal AI assistant. We showed an early glimpse of it at I/O, and it’s now in the hands of trusted testers. Here’s how Robbie is using it. Can’t wait til we start shipping, 2025 is going to be an exciting year!”.
Paytm CEO responds to Sundar Pichai’s post
Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma congratulated the Google CEO. Replying to Google CEO’s post, he said “Extraordinary‼️Congratulations @sundarpichai ! This one puts Google way ahead of others in the consumer AI game — much ahead of 🍎”.
What is Google’s Project Astra
As mentioned above, Project Astra by Google aims to bring a multimodal AI language model to devices like smartphones and smart glasses. This technology will enable users to interact with their surroundings through text, voice, and photos/videos.
Google’s AI Assistant will gather information from both the internet and the real world via the device’s camera, learning and adapting to the user’s environment to function as a highly personalized assistant.
Think of it as a real-life version of Tony Stark’s AI assistant. Remember the scene in Avengers: Infinity War where Tony, wearing his smart glasses, asks his AI for details on “Thanos’ children”? He says, “Friday! What am I looking at?” and the AI responds conversationally. Project Astra aims to bring this level of seamless interaction to everyday life.
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