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GCP – Benchmarking Spanner’s price-performance for key-value workloads
In today’s competitive business landscape, cost is a crucial factor for success. Spanner is Google’s fully managed database service for both relational and non-relational workloads, offering strong consistency at a global level, high performance at virtually unlimited scale, and high availability with an up to five-nines SLA. Spanner is a versatile database that caters to […]

GCP – Cross-cloud materialized views in BigQuery Omni enable multi-cloud analytics at scale
As more and more organizations embrace multi-cloud data architectures, a top request we constantly receive from customers is how to make cross-cloud analytics super simple and cost-effective in BigQuery. To help customers on their cross-cloud analytics journey, today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of BigQuery Omni cross-cloud materialized views (aka cross-cloud MVs). […]

GCP – Build apps faster with new Duet AI in Google Cloud training content
Calling all cloud developers. This year there has been a lot of focus on generative AI, with plenty of excitement about the potential it brings to the future of cloud technology. Today we’re launching new training on Duet AI in Google Cloud that can help you get the most out of the new product features […]

GCP – Responsible water use: Assessing watershed health in data center communities
There’s more demand than ever for the digital products and services that people and businesses rely on every day. Greater digital demand in turn requires greater data center capacity, and here at Google we’re committed to finding sustainable ways to deliver that capacity. Today, we’re sharing our new framework to more precisely evaluate the health […]

GCP – eCabs creates a ride-hailing platform for new and legacy cab companies
Ride hailing and cab services have been forever transformed by smartphone apps that digitally match drivers and riders for trips. While some of the biggest names in the ride-hailing industry are digital natives, cab services that have been around for decades are working to modernize and succeed in this competitive and tech-driven industry. eCabs, a […]

GCP – Announcing General Availability of Duet AI for Developers and Duet AI in Security Operations
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GCP – Gemini, Google’s most capable model, is now available on Vertex AI
A week ago, Google announced Gemini, our most capable and flexible AI model yet. It comes in three sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano. Today, we are excited to announce that Gemini Pro is now publicly available on Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s end-to-end AI platform that includes intuitive tooling, fully-managed infrastructure, and built-in privacy and safety […]

GCP – Imagen 2 on Vertex AI is now generally available
Today, we’re sharing a significant upgrade to Google Cloud’s image-generation capabilities with Imagen 2, our most advanced text-to-image technology, which is now generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access). Imagen 2 on Vertex AI allows our customers to customize and deploy Imagen 2 with intuitive tooling, fully-managed infrastructure, and […]

GCP – MedLM: generative AI fine-tuned for the healthcare industry
Improving healthcare and medicine are among the most promising use cases for artificial intelligence, and we’ve made big strides since our initial research into medically-tuned large language models (LLMs) with Med-PaLM in 2022 and 2023. We’ve been testing Med-PaLM 2 with healthcare organizations, and our Google Research team continues to make significant progress, including exploring […]
GCP – Bringing Gemini to organizations everywhere
Throughout 2023, we have introduced incredible new AI innovations to our customers and the broader developer and user community, including: AI Hypercomputer to train and serve generative AI models; Generative AI support in Vertex AI, our Enterprise AI platform; Duet AI in Google Workspace; and Duet AI for Google Cloud. We have shipped a number […]