Google has announced several cutting-edge features and software for major products like Google Workspace and Google Cloud as it sharpens its focus on generative AI and artificial intelligence. Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated the company’s ambition to dominate the AI and generative AI markets at Google I/O 2023. At this event, cutting-edge products and services were unveiled, highlighting Google’s committed pursuit of superior AI.
With a market cap of $280 billion, Google is making significant investments in integrating AI into its wide range of cloud computing, teamwork, and consumer services. Sundar Pichai underlines the importance of AI and sees a group effort to utilize its potential fully. According to CRN, notable developments at Google I/O 2023 include Duet AI, advancements to Vertex AI, and Google Bard.
These includes:
- For Google Workspace, Duet AI
Headlines about Duet AI for Google Workspace Strong generative AI functionalities are combined at Google I/O for improved cooperation. To help with content generation, Gmail Mobile incorporates generative AI.
Google Slides uses AI to create visuals with little input automatically. For data analysis, automated classification, and the development of custom tables, Sheets uses generative AI.
Smart canvas features, like smart chips, improve Google Docs’ assisted authoring.
- Google’s Next-Generation Language Model is PaLM 2
PaLM 2 was released, an improved iteration of Google’s big language model. PaLM 2 includes the Gecko, Otter, Bison, and Unicorn models, each of which has a unique size. Gecko includes interactive offline features and was created for mobile devices. As a result of their training in science, mathematics, and more than 100 other languages, CEO Pichai emphasized their aptitude for logic, reasoning, and multilingual understanding.
- New Bard Features
Updates to Bard were presented at Google I/O, utilizing the company’s brand-new PaLM 2 big language model. Better visual cues and responses are part of Bard’s growth. Users may now ask for travel advice and receive text and detailed graphics for more insightful responses.
Additionally, users can include images in their prompts, which fosters creativity. This integration makes Bard’s capabilities more cutting-edge by utilizing Google Lens’s capabilities.
- Google Cloud Duet AI
Duet AI for Google Cloud, an AI-powered collaborator that can accommodate users of all skill levels, is now available from Google. This skilled pair programmer helps cloud customers by assisting with code review, contextual code completion, targeted suggestions, and real-time function development.
With its seamless integration with IDEs, the Google Cloud Console, and chat, Duet AI significantly changes how users create experiences across Google Cloud, offering increased productivity and innovation.
- New Foundation Models for Vertex AI
Google added three new foundation models to Vertex AI, now available via the API, the UI in Generative AI Studio, or data science notebooks.
These three new foundational models are Chirp, Codey, and Imagen.
With real-time code completion and generation, Google’s Codey is a text-to-code foundation paradigm incorporated in SDKs or apps to increase developer productivity.
Imagen, the text-to-image paradigm, creates and customizes studio-quality images at scale for various commercial needs.
Through voice help and native language captioning, Chirp’s speech-to-text foundation paradigm promotes inclusive client involvement, boosting relationships.
- New RLHF from Vertex AI
By incorporating human feedback for customized model advancement, Vertex AI is introducing New Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which improves tuning and prompt design.
As the first cloud hyperscale provider to offer RLHF as a managed service within Vertex AI, Google sets the bar high by supporting model performance that is economical, consistent, reliable, safer, and more advantageous for model deployment to production.
- Nvidia H100 GPUs in Google A3 supercomputers
The private preview launch of the A3 GPU supercomputer, which combines Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs with cutting-edge networking, expands Google Cloud’s compute options.
By extending computing possibilities for machine learning workloads, including large language models, generative AI, and diffusion models, this expansion caters to a range of customer sizes.
- Embedded APIs for Vertex AI
Google incorporates text and image APIs into Vertex AI, enabling programmers to create sophisticated applications like classifiers and recommendation engines. Text and visual data are converted into numerical vectors using embeddings while maintaining semantic links.
Huge models can process these vectors effectively, and they are helpful for massive inputs like texts with many thousands of tokens.
