Astra
Basic information
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20241219095324/https://deepmind.google/technologies/project-astra/
Short description: Phone-based multimodal assistant with tool use.
Intended uses: What does the developer say it’s for? Prototype of a universal AI assistant [source]
Date(s) deployed: Not deployed, “trusted tested waitlist” debut Dec 11 [source]
Developer
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20241231224948/https://deepmind.google/
Legal name: Google LLC [source]
Entity type: LLC
Country (location of developer or first author’s first affiliation): Incorporation: Delaware, USA (GOOGLE LLC 3582691) [source]
Safety policies: What safety and/or responsibility policies are in place? Several relevant commitments [source] [source] [source]
System components
Backend model: What model(s) are used to power the system? Gemini [source]
Publicly available model specification: Is there formal documentation on the system’s intended uses and how it is designed to behave in them? None
Reasoning, planning, and memory implementation: How does the system ‘think’? 10-minute memory, remembers past interactions [source]
Observation space: What is the system able to observe while ‘thinking’? Live speech, images, video, text [source]
Action space/tools: What direct actions can the system take? Uses Google Search, Maps and Lens for conducting research [source]
User interface: How do users interact with the system? Live video feed with voice and chat interface in demo [source]
Development cost and compute: What is known about the development costs? Unknown
Guardrails and oversight
Accessibility of components:
- Weights: Are model parameters available? Closed source
- Data: Is data available? Closed source
- Code: Is code available? Closed source
- Scaffolding: Is system scaffolding available? Closed source
- Documentation: Is documentation available? Unavailable
Controls and guardrails: What notable methods are used to protect against harmful actions? Unknown
Customer and usage restrictions: Are there know-your-customer measures or other restrictions on customers? Currently behind a waitlist
Monitoring and shutdown procedures: Are there any notable methods or protocols that allow for the system to be shut down if it is observed to behave harmfully? Unknown
Evaluation
Notable benchmark evaluations: None
Bespoke testing: Demos [source]
Safety: Have safety evaluations been conducted by the developers? What were the results? None
Publicly reported external red-teaming or comparable auditing:
- Personnel: Who were the red-teamers/auditors? None
- Scope, scale, access, and methods: What access did red-teamers/auditors have and what actions did they take? None
- Findings: What did the red-teamers/auditors conclude? None
Ecosystem information
Interoperability with other systems: What tools or integrations are available? Uses Google Search, Maps and Lens for conducting research [source]
Usage statistics and patterns: Are there any notable observations about usage? None
Additional notes
None