Google launched its family of Gemini 2.0 models that includes a version of Gemini 2.0 Flash as its latest Trillium TPUs become generally available.
Alphabet handily topped third-quarter expectations and its Google Cloud saw revenue growth of 35% from a year ago due to generative AI.
Google Public Sector and NASA are training AI models to understand the speech, context and instructions needed to get airplanes from the runway to their gates as efficiently and safely as possible.
General Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for United States Space Force, outlined the agency's increasing challenges, but noted that the innovation at scale and pace is possible with a public-private partnership.
Google Public Sector Summit featured a packed lineup of AI leaders, panels on use cases and real-world government challenges. Here's a look at the takeaways.
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.
Google Cloud's move to file a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive business practices with Azure highlights how the cloud battle is moving to courtrooms and regulators.
Google Cloud launched a series of updates including new Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro models with a 2 million context window, grounding with Google search, premade Gems in Gemini in Google Workspace and a series of AI agents designed for customer engagement and conversation.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company is increasingly monetizing AI based on consumption models, volumes of data and selling agents to line of business executives over IT.
Google Cloud updated Vertex AI with new models, context caching, provision throughput and a bevy of grounding updates with Google Search, third party data and an experimental "grounding with high-fidelity mode."
Google I/O 2024 featured a bevy of generative AI advances that will be layered throughout Google's product portfolio but the real takeaway was that the company laid out its vision for agents, models training models, and creating systems that work for you
