Google's Project Astra, unveiled at I/O 2024, aims to revolutionize user interaction with a universal AI assistant. CEO Sundar Pichai showcased a prototype, highlighting its multimodal capabilities on smartphones and smart glasses.

I think you’ll be surprised, even early in ‘25, the kind of newer things Search can do compared to where it is today.” Google is redesigning its search engine —  Pichai also responded to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s comment from earlier this year,

Pichai's comments came after Sorkin read aloud comments from an interview Nadella did earlier this year, in which the Microsoft CEO questioned Google's place in the AI arms race following the search giant's AI product mishaps earlier this year.