Google’s focus project for Universal AI Assistant is pulling into Astra Focus
In last year’s Google I/O, one of the most interesting demo project Astra, which is the early version of the multimodal AI, which can detect your surroundings in real time and can answer the questions about them. The demo gave A glimpse of In Google’s plans for more powerful AI aides, the company is careful to note that what we have seen is “research preview”.
A year later, the Google Project acts as a “Universal AI Assistant” for a day power for Astra. And the project Astra has gained some important updates to help achieve it. Google is working to upgrade Astra’s memory – the version we saw last year can “remember” for 30 seconds at once – and Astra can now take more complex tasks so that the computer control is added.
In its latest video displaying Astra, Google shows that browsing the assistant web and pulling out the specific information required to complete a task (in this example, fixing a mountain bike). Astra is able to look through past emails to find a specific specs of bike and calls the local bike to the store to seek about the re -ment establishment.
In the end, according to the Demis Hassabis of the Deepmind, the progress of Astra appears in Gemini. “Our ultimate focus is turning the Gemini app into a Universal AI Assistant, it does it daily for us, taking care of our worldly manager, making the surface happy new recommendations, make us more productive, and enrich our lives.” “This is a video awareness, screen sharing and our research prototype project like memory.
Some of that work is already evident in Gemini Live, which there are some recently Multimodal capabilities Its own. But, I am Recognized last yearProject is more interesting in the context of Astra smart glasses – the idea that Google was briefly teased in his I/O video last year. Hasabis has found that Google is working to bring the project to new forms such as “glasses such as glasses”. There is no clear duration of when any of these will be available, but we know that Google’s updates on Android XR elsewhere at I/O, we know that the company has big plans for AI-powerful smart glasses at the end of this year.
