GCP – An inside look into Google’s AI innovations: AI Luminaries at Cloud Next

Today, I’m pleased to announce the launch of AI Luminaries programming at the upcoming Google Cloud Next conference. This is a unique forum where some of the top researchers, scientists, and technology leaders in the world will engage with Google experts across a variety of critical AI domains, including research, infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI hardware.

The AI Luminaries content is a curated selection of talks and discussions that offer unparalleled access to Google’s leading AI innovators. Our customers and partners will be able to engage with a diverse range of content, including focused breakout sessions, interactive panels with AMAs, presentations on significant research papers, and networking opportunities within the Google Cloud Showcase.

AI Luminaries sessions 

These speakers represent not only academic thought leadership, but engineering execution and strategic vision, offering a unique glimpse into the next era of technological advancement. 

Building the future of AI: Intelligent infrastructure and sustainable energy: The explosive growth of artificial intelligence demands a paradigm shift in how we build and power its infrastructure. Join Urs Hölzle, Google Fellow, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan, VP, Engineering Fellow at Google Cloud, for a fireside chat exploring the critical intersection of intelligent infrastructure and sustainable energy. They will delve into the challenges and opportunities of scaling AI, from the hardware powering massive models to the energy sources that fuel them. Discover how innovative approaches to infrastructure design and energy efficiency are shaping the future of AI, 25 years of cloud infrastructure design at Google, and what is coming for the next 25 years.

Google Cloud TPUs and specialized AI hardware: Jeff Dean on what’s next: Join an insightful fireside chat with Jeff Dean, a pioneering force behind Google’s AI leadership and Sabastian Mugazambi, Senior Product Manager, Cloud AI Infrastructure. As Google’s Chief Scientist at DeepMind & Research, Jeff will share his vision on AI and specialized AI hardware like Google Cloud TPUs. What exciting things might we expect to see next? What drives Google’s innovation in specialized AI hardware? We’ll discuss how TPUs enable efficient large-scale training and optimal inference workloads including exclusive, never-before-revealed details of the latest Gen TPU, differentiated chip design, data center infrastructure and software stack co-design that makes TPUs the most compelling choice for AI workloads.

Isomorphic Labs: Solving disease with AI Isomorphic Labs has created an AI drug design engine that reimagined traditional drug discovery approaches and allowed the company to go after some of the hardest disease targets. IsoLabs’ frontier AI research has yielded models that can accurately predict properties of proteins and other molecules and allow chemists to rationally design the next generation of medicines in-silico, in record time. Featuring Isomorphic Labs Chief Technology Officer, Sergei Yakneen. 

In my session, Now in focus: The fifth, gen AI epoch computing infrastructure, I will share my thoughts on the future of AI infrastructure, exploring the design principles behind scale-out architectures and the shift towards specialized hardware, high-bandwidth networks, liquid cooling and advanced memory technologies necessitated by Generative AI. 

Join us at Google Cloud Next

By sharing our knowledge and expertise in these sessions, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of the technologies we are building for the future of AI and inspire further innovation across the industry. We invite you to join us at Google Cloud Next to witness the next era of AI development.