Sundar hints that Project Astra and Deep Research are coming to Search

When asked how Google Search will evolve around AI, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai asked everyone to look to some of DeepMind’s research projects around multimodal AI and agents.

“I think we’ll continue bringing AI in more powerful ways, in multimodal ways, things like what we’ve done with Lens, Circle to Search. You can imagine the future with Project Astra. You can also imagine areas like we have done in Gemini Deep Research.”

That means, one day, Google Search might be able to process live video with Project Astra, or generate long research reports with Deep Research.

The Google DeepMind website on a laptop computer arranged in New York, US,
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