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Google wo n’t ship tech fromProject Astra , its wide - ranging effort to work up AI apps and “ agentive role ” for genuine - metre , multimodal discernment , until next class at the early .
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the timeline in remarks during Google ’s Q3 wage call Tuesday . “ [ Google is ] building out experiences where AI can see and reason about the world around you , ” hesaid . “ Project Astra is a glimpse of that future . We ’re working to ship experience like this as too soon as 2025 . ”
Project Astra , which Google demo at its I / O developer conference in May 2024 , embrace a range of technologies , from smartphone apps that can accredit the world around them and answer related to questions to AI assistants that can execute action on a user ’s behalf .
In a prerecorded demo during I / O , Google showed a Project Astra image answer interrogative sentence about things within view of a smartphone ’s television camera , like which neighborhood a user might be in or the name of a part on a broken bicycle .
The Informationreportedthis month that Google was be after to launch a consumer - focused agentive role experience as early as this December — one capable of purchasing a product , booking a flight of steps , and other such job . That now seems improbable — unless the experience in question is divorced from Project Astra .
Anthropicrecentlybecame one of the first companies with a large generative AI model able to control apps and vane web browser on a PC . But , illustrating how challenging building AI agents can be , Anthropic ’s conflict with many basic tasks .
