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Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

Not to minimize what Google had on display, but the company failed to give all but a passing nod to its core business — except in the context of generative AI, of course.

Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

Don’t have time to be in Las Vegas? That’s OK: We’ve summed up the most important parts of this year’s Google Cloud Next.

Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far

Can AI eat the jobs of the developers who are busy building AI models? The short answer is no, but the longer answer is not yet settled.

TechCrunch Minute: Google’s Gemini Code Assist wants to use AI to help developers

It’s time for Google’s annual look up to the cloud, this time with a big dose of AI. At 9 a.m. PT Tuesday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian kicked off…

Google Cloud Next 2024: Watch the keynote on Gemini AI, enterprise reveals right here

Google says its Axion instances offer 30% better performance than other Arm-based instances from competitors.

Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor

Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models.

Google open sources tools to support AI model development

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las…

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist

Its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to around 700,000 words or around 30,000 lines of code.

Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro enters public preview on Vertex AI

Agent can take actions based on the conversation, and even interact with back-end transactional systems to take actions in an automated manner.

With Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google Cloud aims to simplify agent creation

With Chrome Enterprise, IT departments get the ability to manage employees’ browser settings, the extensions they install and web apps they use.

Chrome Enterprise goes Premium with new security and management features

The new AI meetings and messaging add-on takes notes for you, provides meeting summaries and translates content into 69 languages.

Google looks to monetize AI with two new $10 Workspace add-ons

Imagen 2 can now create short, four-second videos from text prompts, along the lines of AI-powered clip generation tools like Runway, Pika and Irreverent Labs.

Google launches a video clip generator

Google is also launching a new feature in Gmail for Workspace that can instantly turn rough email drafts into a more polished email.

Google Workspace users will soon get voice prompting in Gmail and tabs in Docs

In addition to the new custom Arm-based Axion chips, most of this year’s announcements are about AI accelerators, whether built by Google or Nvidia.

Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell platform will come to Google Cloud in early 2025

Code Assist will be available through plug-ins for popular editors like VS Code and JetBrains.

Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub’s Copilot

At Cloud Next, many of the announcements had to do with Gemini, Google’s flagship family of generative AI models.

Google injects generative AI into its cloud security tools

Gemini in Databases is a bundle of AI-powered, developer-focused tools for Google Cloud customers who are creating, monitoring and migrating app databases.

Google’s Gemini comes to databases

Google is renewing its focus on data sovereignty. For the time being, though, it looks like its emphasis is on partnerships, not building its own sovereign clouds.

Google bets on partners to run their own sovereign Google Clouds