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Google says its next-gen AI agents won’t launch until 2025 at the earliest

Google won't ship tech from Project Astra, its effort to build AI apps and 'agents' for real-time, multimodal understanding, until 2025 at the earliest.

Project Astra, which Google demoed at its I/O developer conference in May 2024, encompasses a range of technologies, from smartphone apps that can recognize the world around them and answer related questions to AI assistants that can perform actions on a user’s behalf. In a pre-recorded demo during I/O, Google showed a Project Astra prototype answering questions about things within view of a smartphone’s camera, like which neighborhood a user might be in or the name of a part on a broken bicycle. The Information reported this month that Google was planning to launch a consumer-focused agent experience as early as this December — one capable of purchasing a product, booking a flight, and other such chores.

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