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In a typical year, one of Google's two major annual developer conferences, Cloud Next and I/O, focuses almost exclusively on managed APIs, closed source, and gated behind-lockdown content. API products and services will be featured. But this year, whether to foster developer goodwill or advance its ecosystem ambitions (or both), Google has launched a number of open source projects primarily aimed at supporting generative AI projects and infrastructure. We debuted the tool. The first, MaxDiffusion, which Google actually quietly released in February, is a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models (such as those from the image generation tool…

All major vendors are looking at ways to use AI to help their customers develop creative content. On Tuesday, at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las Vegas, Google announced a new AI-powered video creation tool called Google Vids. This tool will be part of the Google Workspace productivity suite when released. “We really want to share something completely new. At Google Cloud Next, we're announcing Google Vids, a completely new AI-powered work video creation app,” said Aparna Pappu, VP and General Manager, Google Workspace. said while introducing the tool. The idea is to provide a video creation tool…

AI Panel & Mixer Featuring Venture-Backed Founders & VCs Super Founders & Funders Sponsored by: Supermomos and HBS AI ClubTime: April 22nd, 6pm to 8pmDescription: In honor of TechCrunch week, join us for an intimate evening of founders and funders with the AI ​​Panel & Mixer featuring venture-backed founders and VCs! Founders and VCs who received the award will appear. There will be time for networking and socializing while enjoying drinks and food from home. This event is aimed at founders, VCs, and operators building full-time in the AI ​​ML space, as well as a select group of students from…

Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google's most capable generative AI model, is now available in public preview on Vertex AI, Google's enterprise AI development platform. The company announced the news at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week. Gemini 1.5 Pro was launched in February and joins Google's Gemini family of generative AI models. Arguably, what makes that headline unique is the amount of context it can handle. From 128,000 tokens up to 1 million tokens. Here, “tokens” refer to subdivided bits of raw data (such as the syllables “fan”, “tas”, “tic”, etc.). (with the word “amazing”). One million…

AI agents are the new craze in generative AI. Unlike previous generations of chatbots, these agents do more than just answer questions. You can also perform actions based on conversations or interact with backend transaction systems to perform actions in an automated manner. At Google Cloud Next on Tuesday, the company introduced new tools to help enterprises build AI agents. “Vertex AI Agent Builder makes it incredibly easy and fast to build conversational agents,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kuran. “By building and deploying production-ready conversational agents powered by generative AI that can be directed and guided like a human,…

Google expanded its Chrome Enterprise product suite Tuesday with Chrome Enterprise Premium at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas. Google has long offered an enterprise version of its Chrome browser. Chrome Enterprise gives IT the ability to manage an employee's browser settings, which extensions he installs, which web apps he uses, and more. But more importantly, you also get many new security controls for data loss prevention, malware protection, phishing prevention, and zero-trust access to SaaS apps. Priced at $6 per user per month, Chrome Enterprise Premium primarily extends the security features of existing services based on the…

While the jury is still out on how much AI will improve personal productivity, companies are now looking to monetize AI by building more advanced AI capabilities into their software. Last year, Microsoft made headlines when it announced that Copilot would add $30 per user per month to the price of Office 365 subscriptions. However, creating and running these features is costly, and customers must bear some of that cost. At Google Cloud Next, Google followed Microsoft's monetization lead and announced two add-on packages for the Google Workspace productivity suite priced at $10 per user per month. Image credit: Frederic…

Google doesn't have the best track record when it comes to image generation AI. In February, an image generator built into Google's AI-powered chatbot Gemini randomly inserted gender and racial diversity into prompts about people, resulting in offensive inaccuracies. Among other things, it was found that images of racially diverse Nazis were being produced. Google has vowed to retire the generator, improve it and eventually re-release it. While we wait for its return, the company will release Imagen 2, an enhanced image generation tool within his Vertex AI developer platform. However, it is clearly an enterprise tool. Google announced Imagen…

Google Cloud Next will be held in Las Vegas this week. That means it's time for many new instance types and accelerators to come to Google Cloud Platform. In addition to his new custom Arm-based Axion chip, most of this year's announcements are about AI accelerators, whether made by Google or Nvidia. Just a few weeks ago, Nvidia announced the Blackwell platform. But don't expect Google to offer these machines any time soon. Support for the high-performance Nvidia HGX B200 for AI and HPC workloads and GB200 NBL72 for large-scale language model (LLM) training is expected to be available in…

Google continues to introduce more AI-driven features to its Workspace productivity application. The company announced Tuesday at its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas that Google Workspace subscribers will soon be able to use voice prompts to initiate Gmail's AI-based “writing help” feature on the go, for example. did. Additionally, Google is releasing a new feature to his Gmail for Workspace that allows you to instantly transform your rough email drafts into more polished emails. Image credit: Google These features will first be available to paid members. Asked about this at a press conference ahead of Tuesday's announcement, Google's Aparna…