5 Takeaways From Alphabet’s Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote [Video]

Artificial intelligence (AI) took center stage at Alphabet’s (GOOGL) annual developer conference, Google I/O, with the company unveiling several new AI initiatives. Here are the key takeaways.

Google introduced Gemini Live, a voice AI agent, and Project Astra, a prototype AI assistant that responds to video input.

Gemini Live, which is set to come in the summer, expands upon Gemini’s multimodal capabilities to allow the user to “have an in-depth two-way conversation using your voice.”

Google also showed a video demonstration where its AI agent, Project Astra, was able to identify objects shown on the camera feed and understand code shown on a computer screen, among other tasks.

The Google news comes the day after Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI announced improved voice capabilities on ChatGPT powered by the new GPT-4o model.

Google unveiled AI-powered generation tools for images, videos, and music called Imagen 3, Veo, and Music AI Sandbox, respectively.

The company introduced Imagen 3, a text-to-image …