Navigating the complexities of the data-to-insights journey can be frustrating. Data professionals spend valuable time sifting through data sources, reinventing the wheel with each new question that comes their way. They juggle multiple tools, hop between coding languages, and collaborate with a wide array of teams across their organizations. This fragmented approach is riddled with […]

We are at a pivotal moment for business intelligence (BI). There’s more data than ever impacting all aspects of business. Organizations are faced with increasing user demands for that data, with a wide range of access requirements. Then there’s AI, which is radically transforming how you create and think about every project. The delivery and […]

Yesterday, at Next ‘24, we announced a preview of Gemini in Databases — an AI powered database assistant that simplifies all aspects of database operations including assisted development, performance optimization, fleet management, governance, and migrations. With Gemini in Databases, companies no longer need to exclusively rely on people with specialized skills and custom resources to […]

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the demand for high-performance, cost-efficient AI inference (serving) has never been greater. This week we announced two new open source software offerings: JetStream and MaxDiffusion.  JetStream is a new inference engine for XLA devices, starting with Cloud TPUs. JetStream is specifically designed for large language models (LLMs) […]

The journey of going from data to insights can be fragmented, complex and time consuming. Data teams spend time on repetitive and routine tasks such as ingesting structured and unstructured data, wrangling data in preparation for analysis, and optimizing and maintaining pipelines. Obviously, they’d rather prefer doing higher-value analysis and insights-led decision making.  At Next […]

With the proliferation of digital devices and platforms including social media, mobile devices and IoT sensors, organizations are increasingly generating unstructured data in the form of images, audio files, videos, and documents etc. Over the last few months, we launched BigQuery integrations with Vertex AI to leverage Gemini 1.0 Pro, PaLM , Vision AI, Speech […]

Navigating the complexities of cloud migration and transformation is akin to exploring uncharted territories. Many businesses, just like yours, face challenges that divert their focus from core objectives to the intricacies of accessing cutting-edge tools and methodologies. But what if there was a way to simplify this journey, ensuring that your focus remains undiluted on […]

It’s clear that for the past decade, the media and entertainment industry has been undergoing a significant transformation. Still, consumers continue to demand more personalized and diverse entertainment offerings. To keep pace, media and entertainment companies need powerful and flexible tools that accelerate time-to-market for these new offerings, while also optimizing costs. This is where […]

Hello from sunny Las Vegas, where we kicked off Google Cloud Next ’24 today! What happened in Vegas on the first day of Next? In a word, AI. Read on for highlights of the day. We started things off with a reminder of how companies are using AI — not as a future thing, but […]