In-car voice tech set to get a massive boost from Google’s AI [Video]

Google’s generative AI is coming to a dashboard near you. The company appeared on stage at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit to announce the two have teamed up to bring AI smarts to future dashboards.

That’s pretty significant as while in-car tech is getting loads better, voice assistants are still quite simple. Qualcomm’s latest-gen in-car hardware (part of what it calls the Snapdragon Digital Chassis) is highly capable hardware that powers many connected cars, now with support for 4K displays (up to 16 of them, believe it or not) and even zonal audio so driver alerts don’t disturb passengers and vice versa.

The company announced Mercedes-Benz vehicles will use the new platform in the future.

But on the software side, things haven’t progressed as much as we thought they might by now – and we’re still seeing a bit of a power struggle between automakers and the ambitions of Apple CarPlay and Google’s own Android Auto. Of course, …