Google is in the Age of Gemini, according to CEO Sundar Pichai.

Pichai took the stage at Google's I/O event on Tuesday and shared the tech giant's new capabilities YEARS The Gemini AI model, which was officially released in December as Google's largest AI model that can reason multimodally, or through text, code, audio, video and image.

Google also unveiled a prototype of a new AI assistant, Project Astra, and said AI-written search summaries would be rolled out in the US starting today.

Pichai stated that more than 1.5 million developers have used the Gemini AI model since its launch and that Google has incorporated it into all of its two billion user products.

Although Google is “in the early days of its AI platform shift,” according to Pichai, the sheer number of AI announcements at the event shows that the company has been working hard to not only add new AI products, but also introduced existing popular services. like Google Search with AI.

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Google now has an updated AI image generator called Imagen 3, a new AI video generator called Veo, and an AI music sandbox developed in collaboration with YouTube artists, musicians, and creators.

It also announced a cost-effective model of AI, Gemini 1.5 Flashwhich is one faster version of Google's previous AI models. It can generate images and write answers faster, for example.

New: Astra AI Assistant Project

At the event, Google introduced the Project Astra AI assistant, which matches the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4o, revealed YESTERDAY.

Like GPT-4o, which will be widely available to free and paid users in the coming weeks, Google's AI assistant combines audio, visual and written signals to quickly respond to users.

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For example, a user can show Project Astra his or her surroundings with the phone's camera and ask the AI ​​agent to process code on a screen or speak the components to a speaker on his desk.

The AI ​​agent responds with a little lag time in its responses, which makes for a better back and forth.

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Project Astra is still a prototype, but it shows Google's intention to work towards a single AI assistant.

AI is taking over Google search

The AI ​​summaries, or written summaries of results that appear at the top of a Google search page, are rolling out to all US users starting today.

By the end of the year, Google says AI summaries will be implemented more than a billion people using Search.

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Google has already tested AI in Search to help answer billions of questions.

Pichai stated that users were asking longer and more complex questions, using search more and reporting increased satisfaction with the results.

Some AI features “coming soon” to Google Search include questions directly in the video search bar and with many steps reasoning skills.

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