Recap Of Google I/O 2024: Gemini 1.5, Project Astra, AI-Powered Search Engine
InfoQ, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Google recently hosted its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2024, where numerous announcements were made regarding Google's apps and services. As anticipated, AI was a focal point of the event, being incorporated into almost all Google products.
Here is a summary of the major announcements from the event.
The most notable unveiling was the introduction of Google's latest AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro. This new model, as Google CEO Sundar Pichai put it: "Offers the longest context window of any foundational model yet."
The context window measures the amount of information the model can process at once, and with a 2 million token window, Gemini 1.5 Pro is a significant step forward in AI capabilities.
According to Google: "The Gemini era is here, bringing the magic of AI to the tools you use every day."
Google is previewing a two million context window in Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash to developers through a waitlist in Google AI Studio.
In addition to Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google also introduced Project Astra, a future vision for AI that can respond to sight, sounds, voice, and text combined. This project aims to create an AI that can understand and interact with the world in a more human-like manner. Google's Project Astra is a multimodal AI assistant that the company hopes will become a do-everything virtual assistant that can watch and understand what it sees through your device's camera.