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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 […]

GCP – Enhancing Duet AI for Developers through our partner ecosystem
Today, we’re announcing that Duet AI for Developers is now Generally Available (GA), along with new partner enhancements that will bring even greater capabilities to customers. All of our Duet AI services will incorporate Gemini, our newest and most capable model, over the next few weeks. Google Cloud’s strategy is to meet developers where they […]

GCP – Advanced Networking Demos Cloud Firewall Plus, NCC VPC spokes & NFO edition
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GCP – Supporting research computing at Stanford and UC Riverside with HPC on Google Cloud
We are in the midst of a new era of research and innovation across disciplines and industries. Researchers increasingly rely on computational methods to drive their discoveries, and AI-infused tools supercharge the need for powerful computational resources. Not only is the speed of discovery accelerating, the workflows used to make these discoveries are also rapidly […]