Everything AI at Google Cloud Next

PLUS: The World's First AI Quality Conference

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AI For All
April 12, 2024

Hello readers,

Welcome to another edition of This Week in the Future! Google went all out on AI at its Google Cloud Next event, announcing a custom CPU, an improved AI hypercomputer, and a billion Gemini integrations. Plus, the world’s first AI Quality Conference!

Let’s get into it!

Google Cloud Next 2024

To no one’s surprise, AI was the star of Google Cloud Next, with Google looking to assure enterprises of its AI capabilities as it competes with Azure and AWS. While there was no shortage of AI-related announcements, here are all the major ones:

Axion: Google announced a custom Arm-based CPU intended to give its data centers a boost in processing power, aiding in intense generative AI pipelines.

AI Hypercomputer: Google made enhancements to its coveted AI Hypercomputer while making its Cloud TPU v5p and A3 Mega VMs generally available.

Vertex AI: Google expanded access to models including Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3, and the new CodeGemma. Additionally, Google announced Vertex AI Agent Builder to help developers deploy enterprise-grade, factually grounded AI agents.

Gemini for Google Cloud: Gemini is now fully integrated into Google Cloud with new features like Gemini Code Assist (formerly Duet AI for Developers), Gemini Cloud Assist, Gemini in Security, Gemini in BigQuery, and Gemini in Databases. 😅 

Gemini for Workspace: New AI innovations include Google Vids, a tool for making corporate video presentations, plus AI Meetings and Messaging and AI Security add-ons.

Our Take

While one might say that Google’s product line is now irreparably confusing with all these announcements, the most relevant capabilities will be clear to those actually using Google Cloud. This year’s event was another testament to Google’s infrastructure prowess, and the continued infusion of AI should make clients and shareholders happy.

Google doesn’t want to depend on search ads forever. It wants an infinite money hack like AWS is for Amazon. At this point, Big Tech is content to sit on its piles of servers like a dragon hoarding gold and provide the foundation on which most AI will run.

On June 25th in San Francisco, the brightest minds from Cruise, NVIDIA, Google, Uber, and many more are coming to the stage to share their insights on creating high-quality AI products in autonomous systems, robotics, LLMs, and GenAI. This is more than a conference — it’s a movement to build rigorous, reliable, and scalable AI. Join us for this unique opportunity to network with peers, learn from the best in the field, and contribute to setting new quality standards in AI development.

Save $260 when you register by April 20th — your price is just $199 (regular full price $459). Visit the registration page and use code KolenaVIP2024 at checkout.

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📖 What We’re Reading

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“While people have long questioned whether AI models may, at some point, become as persuasive as humans, there has been limited empirical research into the relationship between model scale and the degree of persuasiveness across model outputs. To address this, we developed a basic method to measure persuasiveness, and used it to compare a variety of Anthropic models.”

Source: Anthropic

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