Project Astra comes to Google Search, Gemini, and developers

Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company’s low latency, multimodal AI experience — will power an array of new experiences in Search, the Gemini AI app, and products from third-party developers. Most notably, Project Astra is powering a new Search Live feature in Google Search. When using AI Mode, Google’s AI-powered search feature, or Lens, the company’s visual search feature, users can click the “Live” button to ask questions about what they’re seeing through their smartphone’s camera. Project Astra streams live video and audio into an AI model, and responds with answers to users’ questions with little to no latency. 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 says it’s building those Project Astra glasses with partners including Samsung and Warby Parker, but the company doesn’t have a set lau ... Read full article.