Google has a new AI agent that can tell you things about what's around you. A lot of things. Called "Project Astra," it's a Gemini-based multimodal AI tool that lets you point your phone's camera at ...

Move over Google Assistant; Google has a brand new personal AI assistant that it's much cooler and more useful than anything it did before. It's called Project Astra, and it's powered by Google's ...

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 them ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google I/O 2024 has been, to nobody's surprise, all about AI. For most of Tuesday's two-hour keynote, Google talked up AI ...

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 to ...

The technology powering Gemini Live’s camera and screen sharing is called Project Astra. It’s available as an Android app for trusted testers, and Google today unveiled agentic capabilities for ...

Google has revealed Project Astra at its I/O developer conference. This will allow users to point their phone cameras at the world around them to quickly get answers from a chatbot. Expect some ...

Google I/O 2026 preview: expect Gemini updates, Project Astra news, AI tools across apps, and custom chips/Android XR.

Few tech-industry traditions are as time-honored as vaporware: stuff that gets publicly demoed well before it’s ready to ship. In some cases, the companies in question are just slower to finish their ...

Name an exciting new Google AI feature, and it probably started as Project Astra. But what exactly is it? Let's find out.