Head over to Google’s Vertex AI Studio site and click “Try it in console” to goof around with some of the AI tools Google talked about at I/O today. The site is meant for developers who want to test the company’s models out while deciding what works best for their software, but anyone can play with it.
When you “go live” — I guess that’s what we’re calling it — you can wave around your smartphone camera and ask about what’s around you in real time. Like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, you can even interrupt it. (It is not clear if it sounds like ScarJo.)
The company’s new Gemini voice chat feature will come out “later this year.”
CEO Sundar Pichai just announced new Trillium chips, coming later this year, that are 4.7 times faster than their predecessors, as Google competes with everyone else building new AI chips. Pichai also highlighted Axion, Google’s first ARM-based CPU, which the company announced last month.
Google will also be “one of the first” cloud companies to offer Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU starting in 2025.
Correction: Axion was announced last month, not last year. Also, corrected the spelling of Axion.
Google says Project Astra is its new multimodal AI project — that can interpret things you show it with your smartphone’s camera. The company just demoed it with an impressive video where, in one unbroken shot, it identified several items correctly, recalled where it saw the owner’s glasses (near a red apple on a desk), and explained code on a screen.
