Google’s new Project Astra could be generative AI’s killer app

Google DeepMind unveiled Project Astra, a universal AI assistant that combines visual, audio, and text inputs to perform tasks and answer questions. Astra integrates with Google services and uses Gemini 2.0, which is claimed to be twice as fast as its predecessor and outperforms it on several benchmarks.

The AI can understand context, remember previous interactions, and access real-time information. While impressive in demos, Astra still has glitches and raises privacy concerns, with no public release date announced yet.