Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company is committed to serving the public sector and government "in all of its domains" and said Google Public Sector is the only completely independent division to give it the leeway to serve customers.
Google Public Sector said Gemini in Google Distributed Cloud for secret and top-secret workloads will be available in early 2025 as the two-year-old unit announced key customer wins NIH Strides and CalHEERS as well as a Federal AI Solution Factory with Accenture. Google Cloud also won new authorizations for Air Force Cloud One to provide cloud services to the Department of the Airforce.
The German Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) said that SAP on-premises customers are being discriminated against because the software vendor is requiring that new innovations, notably generative AI, will be delivered on its cloud platform.
Dell Technologies launched its Dell PowerEdge XE9712, a system built on Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 platform with 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs and 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in a rack.
Databricks broadened its partnership with Amazon Web Services in a move that will put Databricks Mosaic AI on AWS for custom models. In addition, Databricks will use AWS' Trainium chips as its preferred infrastructure for model training.
IBM used Adobe Firefly over the last year to lower its content spend by 80% and reduced its ideation time from 15 days to 2 days in a marketing campaign executed in and around the Sphere in Las Vegas. Perhaps the bigger takeaway is that IBM's returns were largely driven by using Firefly at the front end of the creative process.
Nuclear power has seen a resurgence as hyperscalers look for energy to train large language models (LLMs) and power AI workloads.
Adobe launched its Firefly Video Model in beta, added Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing and layered generative AI features throughout its suite of products.
Ashwin Rangan, who has been in the CxO game for three decades at ICANN, Rockwell International, Walmart and Bank of America, has seen his share of technology cycles and generative AI is just the latest.
Artificial intelligence budgets will surge again in 2025, but good luck tracking expenditures with any precision as generative AI spending is lumped into other categories and driven by multiple departments.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched an AMD-powered system designed for complex AI model training. The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 leverages 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators.
Dell Technologies launched new systems powered by AMD's next-generation EPYC server processors and PowerEdge XC9680 system powered by AMD Instinct MI300 and 300x AI accelerators. Dell is also surrounding those AMD powered AI systems with services and the chipmaker's software stack.
