Searching for the first great AI app

ChatGPT launched astir two years and 2 weeks ago. Now, arsenic we adjacent the extremity of 2024, the AI contention is... well, wherever is it, exactly? It’s much competitory than ever, there’s much wealth being poured into caller models and products than ever, and it’s not astatine each wide erstwhile oregon adjacent whether we’re going to get products that marque it each worthwhile.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we speech astir a batch of antithetic AI news, each on a azygous inclination line: the tech manufacture trying desperately to physique a slayer app for AI. (Ideally, for them, besides 1 that makes money.) The Verge’s Richard Lawler joins america arsenic we sermon Google Gemini 2.0, Project Astra and Project Mariner, and everything other Google is doing to enactment AI successful the products you already usage each day. We besides speech done the caller Android XR announcement, and Google’s renewed committedness to making headsets and astute glasses that work. It’s each an AI story, nary substance however you look astatine it.

After that... much AI! We speech astir the motorboat and near-immediate disappearance of OpenAI’s Sora, what’s caller in iOS 18.2, Reddit’s clever-but-primitive new Answers feature, and more.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with Google:

And successful different AI news:

And successful the lightning round: