Project Astra: How it works. Project Astra is a tweaked version of Gemini with enhanced multimodal and agentic capabilities. For trusted testers, Project Astra is available as a standalone app.

Project Astra is being developed by Google's DeepMind team, which is on a mission to build AI that can responsibly benefit humanity; this project is just one of the ways it's doing so.

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First unveiled at Google I/O 2024 through a viral smart glasses demo, Project Astra was born out of Google DeepMind as a way to showcase nearly real-time, multimodal AI capabilities. Google now ...

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 ...

Project Astra isn’t coming to smartphones any time soon; it’s just a research project, and the team seems small. Google has no plans to put Project Astra on the next Google Glass (if such a ...

Project Astra in action (Image credit: Google). Think about the Hal 9000 bot in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, or the Samantha assistant in the movie Her: talking to them is like talking to a ...

What is Project Astra? According to a video that Google showed during a media briefing yesterday, Project Astra appeared to be an app which has a viewfinder as its main interface.

Google unveiled Project Astra last year at I/O, showing off nascent AI technology that allows mobile users to talk to Google’s AI in real time using conversational language. You might ask the AI ...

Project Astra is an experimental effort to reimagine what AI agents can be in the future. I got to test out the new AI technology at Google's I/O conference.

Project Astra works by streaming pictures of your surroundings, one frame per second, into an AI model for real-time processing. While that’s happening, it also processes your voice as you speak.