ChatGPT launched roughly two years and two weeks in the past. Now, as we close to the tip of 2024, the AI race is… properly, the place is it, precisely? It’s extra aggressive than ever, there’s more cash being poured into new fashions and merchandise than ever, and it’s in no way clear when and even whether or not we’re going to get merchandise that make all of it worthwhile.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we speak about a number of completely different AI information, all alongside a single pattern line: the tech trade attempting desperately to construct a killer app for AI. (Ideally, for them, additionally one which makes cash.) The Verge’s Richard Lawler joins us as we talk about Google Gemini 2.0, Venture Astra and Venture Mariner, and the whole lot else Google is doing to place AI within the merchandise you already use every single day. We additionally discuss by way of the brand new Android XR announcement, and Google’s renewed dedication to creating headsets and good glasses that work. It’s all an AI story, irrespective of the way you have a look at it.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Google:
And within the lightning spherical: