Galaxy S25 phones are first with Google’s Project Astra AI Tech

The Samsung Galaxy S25 will be the first family of phones to include Google’s Project Astra, the companies announced Wednesday at Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 event. This allows the phone to analyze the world around it through its camera and provide personalized answers to questions that chatbots cannot replicate. Project Astra is part of Google’s Gemini 2.0, which was announced at the 2024 Google I/O.

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis noted that the company had begun expanding its trusted testing program for Project Astra, which he called the company’s “research prototype exploring future possibilities for a universal AI assistant.”

“And now we’re so excited to partner with Samsung to bring some of its cutting-edge capabilities to the Gemini app,” Hassabis said. “I’m happy to announce that screen sharing and live video streaming are coming first to Android and the Galaxy S25 series.”

The addition, he said, will allow users to ask Gemini to reason about things they see, whether they’re on a phone or in the world around them.

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Hassabis went on to show off some of the features. In one example, a user would be able to show Gemini a photo of themselves wearing size 38 pants and ask if it thinks a size 36 would fit. Another example was walking a person through the pane test on a piece of dough while working on a recipe.

“Our partnership with Samsung will help the future of artificial intelligence through new form factors, such as glasses or headsets, to more ‘agentic’ capabilities, such as the ability to take actions on your behalf,” Hassabis said.

In CNET’s hands-on with Project Astra, we noted that it had tons of potential, being both faster and smoother than Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses with its built-in AI. However, it may raise privacy concerns as it uses the phone’s camera to view the world around it. Google says it helps here by having tools built in to prevent users from accidentally sharing personal data.

The Galaxy S25 gets more artificial intelligence

In addition to Project Astra, the Galaxy S25 family also gets a number of other AI features that build on the Galaxy AI tools that the company announced last year. Some examples include the new AI Select tool that will suggest actions based on what’s on your phone screen, while the Photo Gallery app supports conversational queries so you can find specific photos just by asking.

The Galaxy S25 is available for pre-order now and will ship on February 7.