Google unveils new AI, search capabilities at I/O conference

Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) unveiled its latest generation of generative AI features and systems at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California. Goldman Sachs has labeled Google as the "leading collection" of AI-integrated products and businesses.

From the Google I/O event, Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley recaps the newest iterations of Gemini, Google's search engine overhaul, and the large language models to be installed on Google devices.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

Video transcript

Quite a busy week for Google as well.

The tech giant unveiling a slew of generative A I products and its IO developer conference in Mountain view, California on Tuesday.

Those include its Gemini live assistant and updates for its Android and workspaces platforms.

So what have we learned from one of the biggest tech events of the year?

Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan, how he is live at the conference to explain Dan, thanks for joining us.

What do you have?

Yeah, Matty look, there's, there's a couple of things that I think are, are worth looking at here and really it's kind of a full reinvention almost of Google itself is kind of the new leader of A I or at least that's what they're projecting after they kind of lost that crown to open A I and Microsoft in 2022 2023 where we saw those companies really just take off as far as gender of A I goes and then Google kind of stumbled out of the, the the starting blocks.

They had that bar launch, that wasn't that great.

They recently had those issues with its image generative software.

But now coming out of Google IO, it looks like they're back in a leadership position.

They announced big changes to search where they're going to have what's called an A I overview kind of a short description or short answer rather to the queries that you have along with links to those cited information sources directly below those.

So it's a completely different look for Google search going forward at least in the US for now.

And then they said billions of people by the end of the year, there was also a really interesting product that was previewed.

It's a prototype called Project Astra.

And it's really this kind of new form of A I assistant that uses both voice live stream video from your phone.

So if you open up your camera and you're looking at what's going on in front of you, it's able to, with what it sees through your phone's camera, really interesting stuff there.

In fact, as I was walking around the IO floor, Google co founder, Sergey Brin actually walked out of a booth checking out the technology and I asked him, you know what his thoughts on the kind of rivalry with open A I, it's like, and what he thinks of the company's new GP T 40 model, which just came out the day before IO coincidentally, I guess he said he hadn't been able to try it yet, but that he thinks this, this product Astro would have been great for Google Glass, that kind of ill fated wearable that came out about a decade ago.

He said it was probably 10 years too early for that.

But you know, when, when you look at overall what Google is doing here, they're just infusing more generative A I throughout all of its products.

And as I said, I think that's their way, are really trying to project the fact that they are back on top as an A I leader and not kind of the second fiddle to open A I and Microsoft, still Microsoft has their BUILD conference next week and you can guarantee that they're going to announce some kind of generative A I offerings likely tied to open A I.

All right, Dan, we're going to have to leave it there, but thank you so much for joining us as always and bringing in us here on the ground reporting.

We appreciate it.