Google Is Rolling Out More AI Features for Customers on the Cloud (bloomberg.com) 6
Google announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-powered features for customers of its cloud-computing business, as the technology giant jostles for dominance in the burgeoning field with rivals such as Microsoft and startup OpenAI. From a report: As Silicon Valley buzzes about so-called generative AI -- software that can create images, text and video based on user prompts -- Google Cloud offered a glimpse of what it's doing to keep up in the race. In a demonstration, the company showed how cloud customers will be able to use its AI tools to create presentations and sales-training documents, take notes during meetings and draft emails to colleagues. The company also made some of its underlying AI models available to developers so they can build their own applications using Google's technology.
Alphabet-owned Google also said Tuesday it had signed up a flurry of AI startups as customers for its cloud service, including Midjourney, which offers an image-generation system, and AI21, which specializes in technology known as large language models. Google is offering young AI-focused businesses $250,000 in free use of its cloud -- which provides computing horsepower and storage -- for the first year, which the company said is 2 1/2 times what it typically offers. "We believe in having a broad, vibrant partner ecosystem for AI," Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of Google Cloud, said in an interview.
Alphabet-owned Google also said Tuesday it had signed up a flurry of AI startups as customers for its cloud service, including Midjourney, which offers an image-generation system, and AI21, which specializes in technology known as large language models. Google is offering young AI-focused businesses $250,000 in free use of its cloud -- which provides computing horsepower and storage -- for the first year, which the company said is 2 1/2 times what it typically offers. "We believe in having a broad, vibrant partner ecosystem for AI," Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of Google Cloud, said in an interview.
Where are the wise aliens when you need them? (Score:2)
Betting quatloos on whether we will destroy ourselves before creating our AI successors? At least that's my bet.
But random gambling on creating more AIs just to keep the competition from snarfing up all the money? What could possibly go wrong?
AI-generated Powerpoints (Score:2)
AI tools to create presentations and sales-training documents,
Oh wow... The barf factor is off the scale on that one. Please kill me now, I've lost the will to live all of the sudden...
What the fuck is a broad and vibrant ecosystem? (Score:2)
"We believe in having a broad, vibrant partner ecosystem for AI,"
You believe in vibrant marketing rah-rah, that's for damn sure.
Fine With Me (Score:2)