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GCP – A window into protein folding: Lowering the barriers for AlphaFold Inferencing
The open-source tool Vertex AI AlphaFold Inference Pipeline has enabled biotech companies in streamlining protein-folding activities, accelerating their go to market timeline. It addresses key challenges in protein structure prediction by unleashing the power of parallel processing, optimizing compute resources, and scaling to meet high-throughput demands. Furthermore, it ensures reproducibility, lineage analysis, flexibility, adaptability, and […]
GCP – Chess.com boosts performance, cuts response times by 71% with Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
Editor’s Note: Launched in 2007, Chess.com is a premium platform for online chess and one of the largest of its kind. A Cloud SQL for MySQL shop, it transitioned to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition, improving the user experience, cutting costs, and significantly reducing response times, decreasing p99 latency response from 14ms to 4ms. Read […]
GCP – Join our first Security Talks of 2024: Trends, gen AI security, and augmenting defenses
As cyber threats and risks continue to evolve, robust security is more than just an IT issue — it is imperative for business success and continuity. To help you better understand the current cybersecurity landscape, including guidance on regulatory changes and the latest threat intelligence, we bring you the first 2024 installment of Google Cloud […]
GCP – Driving Looker customer innovations in the generative AI era
Data is a competitive advantage and customers in all industries are looking for complete, simplified business intelligence (BI) solutions to meet their specific needs. Every company, team, and individual wants to work with data to solve problems in their own way, with intuitive tools designed for today’s AI-driven landscape. Our vision is to make Looker […]
GCP – How Livesport activates data and saves engineering resources with BigQuery and Dataddo
Today, organizations can build a robust, end-to-end data infrastructure with a fraction of the in-house engineering resources. Livesport — a provider of real-time data, results, and statistics for virtually all sporting events around the globe — recognized this early on when building their data team. Livesport was already using BigQuery as a data warehouse for […]
GCP – Memorystore for Redis vector search and LangChain integrations for gen AI
In the increasingly competitive generative AI space, developers are looking for scalable and cost-effective means of differentiation and ways to improve user experience. Last week, we announced several enhancements to Memorystore for Redis, evolving it into a core building block for developers who are creating low-latency generative AI applications. First, we launched native Memorystore support […]
GCP – Domain-specific AI apps: A three-step design pattern for specializing LLMs
The world of AI has undergone a transformation with the rise of large language models (LLMs). These advanced models, often regarded as the zenith of current natural language processing (NLP) innovations, excel at crafting human-like text for a wide array of domains. A trend gaining traction is the tailoring of LLMs for specific fields — […]
GCP – Build generative AI and similarity search applications at virtually unlimited scale with Spanner
Spanner, Google Cloud’s fully managed, highly available distributed database service, combines virtually-unlimited horizontal scalability with relational semantics, for both relational and non-relational workloads — all with a 99.999% availability SLA. As data volumes grow and applications demand more from their operational databases, customers need scale. We recently announced support for searching vector embeddings with exact […]
GCP – Move-in ready Kubernetes security with GKE Autopilot
Creating and managing the security of Kubernetes clusters is a lot like building or renovating a house. Both require making concessions across many areas when trying to find a balance between security, usability and maintainability. For homeowners, these choices include utility and aesthetic options, such as installing floors, fixtures, benchtops, and tiles. They also include […]
GCP – eBay accelerates its AI-driven recommendation engine with Vertex AI
At any given time, eBay’s marketplace has more than 1.9 billion listings from millions of different sellers, running the gamut from the latest gadgets to the most obscure collectibles. Using deep machine learning (ML), AI-driven search capabilities, and natural language processing (NLP), we have streamlined the user experience, making it easier to explore and find […]
