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Google’s Cloud Next 2024 event takes place in Las Vegas through Thursday, and that means lots of new cloud-focused news on everything from Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, to AI to devops and security. Last year's event was the first in-person Cloud Next since 2019, and Google took to the stage to show off its ongoing dedication to AI with its Duet AI for Gmail and many other debuts, expansion of generative AI to its security product line in addition to other enterprise-focused updates and d...

Google made a series of announcements this morning, including introduced a new artificial-intelligence-powered video-creation tool called Google Vids, targeted at making it easier for marketing and advertising pros to write, produce and edit videos. The company made that announcement—and myriad others—at the start of its Google Cloud Next customer event, which will take place over the next three days in Las Vegas. Google also made some announcements about its growing set of in-house designed semiconductors...

Small business owners feel the pain while stock market bulls feel confident about inflation and rate cuts. Google unveils its latest in-house processors...

The tech will help with customer service, including troubleshooting product issues, managing software and rescheduling or combining order deliveries...

In a typical year, Cloud Next — one of Google's two major annual developer conferences, the other being I/O — almost exclusively features managed and otherwise closed-source, gated-behind-locked-down-APIs products and services. But this year, whether to foster developer goodwill or advance its ecosystem ambitions (or both), Google debuted a number of open-source tools primarily aimed at supporting generative AI projects and infrastructure. The first, MaxDiffusion, which Google actually quietly r...

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las Vegas, Google introduced a new AI-fueled video creation tool called Google Vids. The tool will become part of Google Workspace productivity suite when it’s released. “I want to share something really entirely new. At Google Cloud Next, we're unveiling Google Vids, a brand new, AI-powered video creation app for work,” Aparna Pappu,...

Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google's most capable generative AI model, is now available in public preview on Vertex AI, Google's enterprise-focused AI development platform. The company announced the news during its annual Cloud Next conference, which is taking place in Las Vegas this week. Gemini 1.5 Pro launched in February, joining Google's Gemini family of generative AI models. Undoubtedly its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: between 128,000 tokens to up to 1 million token...

It's Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas this week, and that means it's time for a bunch of new instance types and accelerators to hit the Google Cloud Platform. In addition to the new custom Arm-based Axion chips, most of this year's announcements are about AI accelerators, whether built by Google itself or from Nvidia. Only a few weeks ago, Nvidia announced its Blackwell platform. But don't expect Google to offer those machines anytime soon. Support for the high-performance Nvidia HGX B200 for AI a...

Data sovereignty and residency laws have become commonplace in recent years. The major clouds, however, were always set up to enable the free movement of data between their various locations, so over the course of the last few years, all of the hyperscalers started looking into how they could offer sovereign clouds that can guarantee that government data, for example, never left a given country. AWS announced its European Sovereign Cloud last October. The Microsoft Azure Cloud for Sovereignty be...