The IT Nerd

Today at Google Cloud Next ‘23, Google was announcing new customers, partners, solutions and products that showcase how Google Cloud is bringing generative AI across its product stack and helping businesses build new AI-powered services and businesses.

• From startups to enterprises, new customers announced how Google Cloud is accelerating their technology transformations through the use of generative AI. Today, we have a number of new global customer and partner announcements, including AdoreMe, AI21 Labs, Bayer, Canoo, CAPCOM, Estée Lauder, GE Appliances, General Motors, Ginkgo Bioworks, Hackensack Meridian Health, Huma Therapeutics, Infinitus Systems, Runway, Six Flags, and more, in addition to expanded partnerships with Acxiom, Bloomberg, CoreLogic, Docusign, Fox Sports, HCA Healthcare, Meditech, MSCI, NIQ, SAP, and Transunio. 

Google Cloud also made a number of product announcements across 4 key pillars: 

• Modern Infrastructure Cloud: Our AI-optimized infrastructure is the leading platform for training and serving generative AI models – with competitive advantages for training performance & scale, model serving price performance, and not to mention support for the latest ML software compilers – like OpenXLA. We’re continuing to deliver workload optimized infrastructure by announcing GKE Enterprise, updating our Google Distributed Cloud portfolio, launching Cross-Cloud Network while expanding our networking offerings with new enhancements, previewing TPU v5e with soon-to-be GA of A3 VMs, and introducing C3A, C3D, and new SAP workload support.
• Collaboration Cloud: We’re announcing significant updates to Google Workspace that build on recent momentum around incorporating AI as a collaborative partner across our tools. These announcements include:
  • General availability of Duet AI in Google Workspace: Since its launch, thousands of companies and more than a million trusted testers have used Duet AI as a powerful collaboration partner that can act as a coach, source of inspiration, and productivity booster—all while ensuring every user and organization has control over their data. Now, we’re introducing more of what’s coming next, including the general availability of Duet AI for Google Workspace, available everywhere Workspace is sold. [Blog post] 
  • Duet AI in Meet: We’re embedding generative AI across the full spectrum of meetings to help them become less fatiguing and more fulfilling.Updates include the new take notes for me and attend for me features; studio look, lighting & sound; dynamic tiles and face detection; and automatic translated captions.
  • The new Google Chat: We’re unveiling an enhanced Chat experience with powerful new features, including Duet AI in Google Chat, a new home view, redesigned search, smart chips, and much more.Chat is not only great at the basics, now with AI built-in, it’s ready for the future. [Blog post]
• Developer, Data and AI Cloud: 
  • A variety of announcements that expand Vertex AI’s capabilities and further empower our customers to easily experiment and build with foundation models, customize them with enterprise data, and smoothly integrate and deploy them into applications with built-in privacy, safety features, and responsible AI. This includes updates to our first party models of PaLM 2, Imagen and Codey, and new third party models with Meta’s Llama 2, TII’s Falcon and pre-announcing Anthropic’s Claude 2. A new digital watermarking functionality for Imagen powered by Google DeepMind’s SynthID. New tools to help enterprises get more value out of our models. This includes Vertex AI Extensions and Vertex AI data connectors. And expanded availability for Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversation. 
  • Expanded preview of Duet AI in Google Cloud with general availability coming with General Availability coming later this year. Duet AI can now provide AI assistance across a wide range of Google Cloud products and services to serve more cloud users — spanning developers, operators, data practitioners, and cybersecurity professionals. 
  • We’re announcing several major product innovations to our Data and AI Cloud portfolios to help customers activate AI with a strong data foundation. We’re extending Duet AI capabilities to databases and data analytics with Duet AI in Database Migration Service to assist with the  journey from Oracle to AlloyDB, and Duet AI in BigQuery and Duet AI in Looker, which lets you use natural language and auto-generate SQL, Python, and LOOKML to access and analyze your data. To help developers build performant and scalable gen AI applications using their operational data, we’re announcing AlloyDB AI, an integrated set of capabilities built into AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, available in preview through our downloadable version of AlloyDB, AlloyDB Omni (moving from technology concept to preview at Next). Additionally, to interconnect data and workloads, we’re announcing BigQuery Studio, a single interface for data engineering, analytics, and predictive analysis to simplify end-to-end data workflows. Lastly, we’re announcing Spanner Data Boost,  which allows customers to analyze their Spanner data via services like BigQuery, Dataflow and more, and delivers high-performance, workload-isolated, on-demand processing of operational data to support analytics, reporting and more.
  • We announced three new APIs to help businesses create climate impact at scale and adapt to a changing world. The APIs apply AI and machine learning to environmental data to give businesses helpful information about rooftop solar potential, air quality and pollen. These APIs can help companies make solar a reality for millions of people, and allow businesses to provide environmental information to people in websites and apps, as poor air quality and increasing pollen affects a growing number of people with climate change.
• Security Cloud: We’re announcing Duet AI in Security across three solution areas for cybersecurity professionals (now in preview): Duet AI in Mandiant Threat Intelligence, Duet AI in Chronicle Security Operations, and Duet AI in Security Command Center. We’re also introducing Mandiant Hunt for Chronicle Security Operations (now in preview), a new managed threat hunting service that integrates Mandiant’s frontline intelligence and expertise with Google Cloud technology to proactively search for undetected attacks. 

You can also read more about our news announcements from CEO Thomas Kurian here. 

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