October 29, 2024: Google Delays Next-Gen AI Launch to 2025 - During its Q3 earnings call, Google announced that Project Astra, its advanced AI initiative for real-time, multimodal understanding, will not launch until 2025. Unveiled at the I/O developer conference in May 2024, Project Astra aims to develop AI apps and assistants that perform tasks based on visual recognition. Despite earlier reports suggesting a December release of a related consumer-focused agent, the timeline has shifted. This highlights the complexities companies face, as evidenced by Anthropic, in developing functional AI agents for everyday tasks.
