Swyx: Always-on vision AI assistants will dominate desktop software by late 2025
Shawn Wang · 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents · Jan 1, 2025 · at 1:32:43
Swyx, co-host of Latent Space, discusses the launch of desktop vision agents and real-time multimodal assistants like Project Astra and Gemini.
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“And like this time next year, I would be willing to bet that I would just have this running on my machine. And you know, I think That assistance always on that you can talk to with vision that sees what you're seeing. I think that is where at least one hour software experience to go. Then it will be another few years for that to happen in real life in outside of the screen.”
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