Google announces Project Mariner and updates to Project Astra in push toward agentic AI, or more useful virtual assistants that can complete complex tasks.
I stepped into a room lined with bookshelves, stacked with ordinary programming and architecture texts. One shelf stood slightly askew, and behind it was a hidden room that had three TVs displaying famous artworks: Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon, and Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. “There’s some interesting pieces of art here,” said Bibo Xu, Google DeepMind’s lead product manager for Project Astra.
Agentic era Many AI companies — particularly OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — have been hyping up the technology’s latest buzzword: agents. Google CEO Sundar Pichai defines them in today’s press release as models that “can understand more about the world around you, think multiple steps ahead, and take action on your behalf, with your supervision.” As impressive as these companies make agents sound, they’re difficult to release broadly because AI systems are so unpredictable.
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