Google’s Cloud Subsequent 2024 occasion takes place in Las Vegas via Thursday, and which means numerous new cloud-focused information on all the pieces from Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, to AI to devops and safety. Final 12 months’s occasion was the primary in-person Cloud Subsequent since 2019, and Google took to the stage to point out off its ongoing dedication to AI with its Duet AI for Gmail and many different debuts, enlargement of generative AI to its safety product line along with different enterprise-focused updates and debuts.

Don’t have time to catch the Google Cloud Subsequent livestream? That’s OK; we’ve summed up an important elements of the occasion under.

Google Vids

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Leveraging AI to assist prospects develop inventive content material is one thing Massive Tech is in search of, and Tuesday, Google launched its model. Google Vids, a brand new AI-fueled video creation software, is the newest characteristic added to the Google Workspace.

Right here’s the way it works: Google claims customers could make movies alongside different Workspace instruments like Docs and Sheets. The enhancing, writing and manufacturing is all there. It’s also possible to collaborate with colleagues in actual time inside Google Vids. Learn extra

Vertex AI Agent Builder

We will all use a bit of little bit of assist, proper? Meet Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder, a brand new software to assist corporations construct AI brokers.

“Vertex AI Agent Builder permits individuals to very simply and shortly construct conversational brokers,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian stated. “You’ll be able to construct and deploy production-ready, generative AI-powered conversational brokers and instruct and information them the identical means that you simply do people to enhance the standard and correctness of solutions from fashions.”

To do that, the corporate makes use of a course of referred to as “grounding,” the place the solutions are tied to one thing thought-about to be a dependable supply. On this case, it’s counting on Google Search (which in actuality may or couldn’t be correct). Learn extra

Gemini involves databases

Google calls Gemini in Databases a set of options that “simplify all facets of the database journey.” In much less jargony language, it’s a bundle of AI-powered, developer-focused instruments for Google Cloud prospects who’re creating, monitoring and migrating app databases. Learn extra

Google renews its give attention to information sovereignty

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Google has supplied cloud sovereignties earlier than, however now it’s targeted extra on partnerships relatively than constructing them out on their very own. Learn extra

Safety instruments get some AI love

Google jumps on board the productizing generative AI-powered safety software prepare with plenty of new merchandise and options geared toward giant corporations. These embody Menace Intelligence, which may analyze giant parts of doubtless malicious code. It additionally lets customers carry out pure language searches for ongoing threats or indicators of compromise. One other is Chronicle, Google’s cybersecurity telemetry providing for cloud prospects to help with cybersecurity investigations. The third is the enterprise cybersecurity and danger administration suite Safety Command Middle. Learn extra

Gemini Code Help

After studying about Google’s new Gemini Code Help, an enterprise-focused AI code completion and help software, you might be asking your self if that sounds acquainted. And you’d be right. TechCrunch Senior Editor Frederic Lardinois writes that “Google beforehand supplied a comparable service below the now-defunct Duet AI branding.” Then Gemini got here alongside. Code Help is a direct competitor to GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise. Right here’s why

Nvidia’s Blackwell platform

One of many anticipated bulletins is Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell platform coming to Google Cloud in early 2025. Sure, that appears so far-off. Nonetheless, here’s what to look ahead to: assist for the high-performance Nvidia HGX B200 for AI and HPC workloads and GB200 NBL72 for big language mannequin (LLM) coaching. Oh, and we are able to reveal that the GB200 servers can be liquid-cooled. Learn extra

Google Workspace

Among the many new options are voice prompts to kick off the AI-based “Assist me write” characteristic in Gmail whereas on the go. One other one for Gmail features a technique to immediately flip tough e-mail drafts right into a extra polished e-mail. Over on Sheets, you’ll be able to ship out a customizable alert when a sure subject adjustments. In the meantime, a brand new set of templates make beginning a brand new spreadsheet simpler. For the Doc lovers, there may be assist for tabs now. That is good as a result of, in response to the corporate, you’ll be able to “arrange info in a single doc as an alternative of linking to a number of paperwork or looking out via Drive.” After all, subscribers get the goodies first. Learn extra

Google additionally appears to have plans to monetize two of its new AI options for the Google Workspace productiveness suite. This can seem like $10/month/person add-on packages. One can be for the brand new AI conferences and messaging add-on that takes notes for you, supplies assembly summaries and interprets content material into 69 languages. The opposite is for the launched AI safety package deal, which helps admins maintain Google Workspace content material safer. Learn extra

Imagen 2

In February, Google introduced a picture generator constructed into Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot. The corporate pulled it shortly after it was discovered to be randomly injecting gender and racial variety into prompts about individuals. This resulted in some offensive inaccuracies. Whereas we waited for an eventual re-release, Google got here out with the improved image-generating software, Imagen 2. That is inside its Vertex AI developer platform and has extra of a give attention to enterprise. Imagen 2 is now typically obtainable and comes with some enjoyable new capabilities, together with inpainting and outpainting. There’s additionally Google’s calling “text-to-live pictures” the place you can now create brief, four-second movies from textual content prompts, alongside the traces of AI-powered clip era instruments like Runway, Pika and Irreverent Labs. Learn extra

Chrome Enterprise Premium

In the meantime, Google is increasing its Chrome Enterprise product suite with the launch of Chrome Enterprise Premium. What’s new right here is that it primarily pertains to largely to safety capabilities of the present service, based mostly on the perception that browsers are actually the endpoints the place many of the high-value work inside an organization is finished. Learn extra

Gemini 1.5 Professional

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