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Google’s new features include Gemini in BigQuery and Looker to help users with data engineering and analysis.

Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups

TechCrunch is joining forces with Google Cloud as its lead partner for Startup Battlefield 200. This event will highlight and support the most promising startups from around the globe at…

TechCrunch Disrupt joins forces with Google Cloud for Startup Battlefield 200

Airtel, India’s second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses.

Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and GenAI products to Indian businesses

Google Cloud had a blockbuster quarter, driving parent company Alphabet’s revenues — and stock price — to impressive highs.

It’s a sunny day for Google Cloud

It’s time for Google’s annual look up to the cloud, this time with a big dose of AI. At 9 a.m. PT Tuesday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian kicked off…

Google Cloud Next 2024: Watch the keynote on Gemini AI, enterprise reveals right here

Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models.

Google open sources tools to support AI model development

Its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to around 700,000 words or around 30,000 lines of code.

Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro enters public preview on Vertex AI

Imagen 2 can now create short, four-second videos from text prompts, along the lines of AI-powered clip generation tools like Runway, Pika and Irreverent Labs.

Google launches a video clip generator

In addition to the new custom Arm-based Axion chips, most of this year’s announcements are about AI accelerators, whether built by Google or Nvidia.

Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell platform will come to Google Cloud in early 2025

At Cloud Next, many of the announcements had to do with Gemini, Google’s flagship family of generative AI models.

Google injects generative AI into its cloud security tools

Gemini in Databases is a bundle of AI-powered, developer-focused tools for Google Cloud customers who are creating, monitoring and migrating app databases.

Google’s Gemini comes to databases

Google is renewing its focus on data sovereignty. For the time being, though, it looks like its emphasis is on partnerships, not building its own sovereign clouds.

Google bets on partners to run their own sovereign Google Clouds

Google has today said its cloud region in South Africa is operational, coming a year after the tech giant picked Johannesburg as its first site in Africa. Cloud regions allow…

Google’s first Africa cloud region now operational

Google today announced that it’ll stop charging Google Cloud customers a fee to migrate their data to another cloud provider or on-premise data center, effective immediately. Customers using Google Cloud…

Google says it’ll stop charging fees to transfer data out of Google Cloud

Google wants to inject a little generative AI into retail. Or to try, at least. To coincide with the National Retail Federation’s annual conference in NYC, Google Cloud today unveiled…

Google Cloud rolls out new GenAI products for retailers

After announcing its family of Gemini models last week and bringing it to its Bard chatbot experience, Google is now bringing Gemini to developers by launching a slew of new…

With AI Studio, Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots based on its Gemini model

Google thinks that there’s an opportunity to offload more healthcare tasks to generative AI models — or at least, an opportunity to recruit those models to aid healthcare workers in…

Google unveils MedLM, a family of healthcare-focused generative AI models

As enterprises move to the cloud, figuring out how and where they are spending their money has become increasingly difficult. The different SaaS provider and cloud platforms use their own…

AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner,…

Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB

General Motors has found a new way to get in on the generative AI buzz. The automaker is now using Google Cloud’s conversational chatbot, dubbed Dialogflow, to handle some non-emergency…

General Motors to use Google AI chatbot for its OnStar service

In partnership with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind (Google’s AI research division) is launching a tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated images — but only images created by Google’s image-generating model.…

DeepMind partners with Google Cloud to watermark AI-generated images

Duet AI, Google’s collection of generative AI features for text summarization, organizing data and more, is expanding to new products and services in Google Cloud. At its annual Cloud Next…

Duet AI, Google’s AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud

At Cloud Next, its annual user conference, Google Cloud today announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing. Google announced…

Google Cloud announces the 5th generation of its custom TPUs

Most large businesses now leverage a number of cloud providers. At its Cloud Next conference today, Google Cloud announced Cross-Cloud Network, a new feature that will make life easier for…

Google Cloud’s new Cross-Cloud Network makes it easier to connect applications across clouds

At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to…

Google’s Cloud Spanner Data Boost is now generally available

Despite their $30,000+ price, Nvidia’s H100 GPUs are a hot commodity — to the point where they are typically back-ordered. Earlier this year, Google Cloud announced the private preview launch…

Google’s new A3 GPU supercomputer with Nvidia H100 GPUs will be generally available next month

Over half of CEOs globally are experimenting with AI to generate text, images and other forms of data, a recent joint survey by Fortune and Deloitte found. Meanwhile, a third…

Google upgrades Vertex AI to keep pace with the generative AI boom

AlloyDB, Google’s fully managed PostgresSQL-compatible database service, is gaining a few AI smarts. Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB AI, an integrated set of capabilities built into AlloyDB for…

Google’s AlloyDB AI transforms databases to power generative AI apps

Google Cloud’s annual Next event is happening in San Francisco next week (and we’ll be on the ground to cover all of the announcements), but ahead of the event, Google…

How Google Cloud learned to embrace its partner ecosystem