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Getting AI to write good SQL
Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.
Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology
Recently, Google Cloud partner Groovenauts, Inc. published a live demo of MatchIt Fast . As the demo shows, you can find images and text similar to a selected sample from a collection of millions in a matter of milliseconds:
Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone
Support for GPUs in Cloud Run makes running GPU-accelerated applications simpler, faster, and more cost-effective, as well as enabling new use cases.
Google Imagen 2
Today, we’re sharing a significant upgrade to Google Cloud’s image-generation capabilities with Imagen 2 , our most advanced text-to-image technology, which is now generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access).
New Map APIs from Google
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines.
Trillium TPU Is GA
Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is now GA, delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness for AI workloads.
Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer
The new TPU v5p is a core element of AI Hypercomputer, which is tuned, managed, and orchestrated specifically for gen AI training and serving.
Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
Cloud TPU Pods are now available in beta, helping you train models faster and at lower cost in the cloud.
Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
AI Platform Pipelines provides enterprise-ready infrastructure for deploying and running structured ML workflows, and pipeline tools for building, debugging, and sharing pipelines and components.
TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips
Google has been a leader on AI development for more than a decade by also being a leader in chip development for more than a decade.
20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience
Success in the movie industry relies on a studio’s ability to attract moviegoers—but that’s sometimes easier said than done. Moviegoers are a diverse group, with a wide variety of interests and preferences. Historically, movie studios have relied heavily on experience when deciding to invest in a particular script—but…
Announcing the Pollen API
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
Mayo Clinic to partner with Google
Google Cloud will be at the cornerstone of Mayo Clinic’s digital transformation as it looks to the cloud to enhance patient and clinician experiences, improve diagnostics and patient outcomes, and expand its unparalleled clinical research.
Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
Google Cloud assumes responsibility for potential legal risks of using our generative AI, offering indemnities for training data and generated output.
TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with efficiency gains
A new paper describes how Google’s Cloud TPU v4 outperforms TPU v3 by 2.1x on a per-chip basis, and improves performance/Watt by 2.7x.
Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training
We used Multislice Training to run the world’s largest LLM distributed training job on a compute cluster of 50,944 Cloud TPU v5e chips.
Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
TPUs provide a faster and more cost-effective way to train machine learning models. Learn more about the benefits of training models on Cloud TPU Pods.
Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?
The Earth Species Project is using large language models to develop tools to decipher animal communication.
Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
Want to use open-source LLM models from Hugging Face on your local development environment? With localllm and Cloud Workstations, you can.
Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference
A methodology for measuring the energy, emissions, and water impact of Gemini prompts shines a light on the environmental impact of AI inference.