Google Cloud Next 2024: New Data Center Chip and Chrome Enterprise Premium Join the Ecosystem

Google Cloud announced a caller endeavor subscription for Chrome and a bevy of generative AI add-ons for Google Workspace during the Cloud Next ‘24 conference, held successful Las Vegas from April 9 – 11. Overall, Google Cloud is putting its Gemini generative AI successful spot arsenic overmuch arsenic it can; for instance, the institution is betting connected providing Vertex AI infrastructure for different companies’ AI and hardware similar the caller Axion CPU.

We attended a pre-briefing for an aboriginal look astatine the caller features and tools, including a generative AI video work for selling and interior communications use. Here’s a rundown of what we see the astir impactful endeavor quality from Google Cloud Next.

Chrome Enterprise Premium adds information controls

Enterprise browsers whitethorn beryllium an up and coming trend. Last year, Gartner predicted that browsers made specifically with enterprise-level information and enactment successful mind would turn to wide adoption by 2030. Google is contributing to the proliferation of endeavor browsers with Chrome Enterprise Premium. This endeavor tier adds an other level of information to Chrome, enhancing it with:

• Enterprise controls for argumentation enforcement, absorption of bundle updates and extensions.
• Event and instrumentality reporting.
• Forensic information reporting.
• Context-aware entree controls.
• Threat and information protection.

Chrome Enterprise Premium is disposable today, April 9, wherever Chrome is offered. It costs $6 per idiosyncratic per month.

Axion is Google’s archetypal Arm-based CPU

Some Google Cloud services, specified arsenic BigQuery, volition soon tally connected Google Axion Processors, Google’s archetypal customized Arm-based CPU for information centers (Figure A). Google Cloud said Axion shows 50% amended show than comparable current-generation x86-based virtual machines. Instances connected Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud Batch and much volition beryllium disposable aboriginal successful 2024.

Figure A

The Google Axion Processors are intended to tally unreality workloads successful information centers. Image: Google Cloud 

Vertex AI volition crushed itself successful Google Search

Starting April 9, models trained successful Vertex AI volition beryllium grounded successful Google Search. This could beryllium controversial depending connected precisely what information is being utilized for the training.

Grounding AI is portion of the inclination of Retrieval Augmented Generation, which avoids “hallucinations” by checking the AI against genuine information. Google Cloud says grounding volition supply models built connected Vertex AI with “fresh, high-quality information.”

An abundance of AI additions for Google information products

Google Cloud’s different announcements centered connected adding Gemini into information products, a determination perchance intended to vie with Microsoft’s thorough integration of Copilot into its information suites.

Gemini AI volition present beryllium disposable successful Google Security Operations (Figure B) and Threat Intelligence. In particular, Gemini volition beryllium capable to assistance with investigations successful Chronicle Enterprise and Chronicle Enterprise Plus starting astatine the extremity of April. As of April 9, information analysts tin usage Gemini to speech successful earthy connection to Mandiant menace quality software.

Figure B 

An illustration of utilizing Gemini successful Security Operations to analyse incidents and alerts with conversational chat successful Chronicle Enterprise oregon Enterprise Plus. Image: Google Cloud

Gemini successful Security Command Center received a boost from Gemini; arsenic of April 9, the AI features successful preview tin scan for threats based connected earthy connection prompts, and summarize alerts and onslaught paths.

“Detection engineers tin make detections and playbooks with little effort, and information analysts tin find answers rapidly with intelligent summarization and earthy connection search,” said Ronald Smalley, elder vice president of Cybersecurity Operations astatine Fiserv, successful a Google Cloud press release. “This is captious arsenic SOC teams proceed to negociate expanding information volumes and request to detect, validate, and respond to events faster.“

Gemini Cloud Assist successful Google Cloud’s information services volition present see the pursuing AI-powered capabilities successful preview:

• Identity and entree absorption recommendations for improved IAM posture.
• Assistance with encryption cardinal creation.
• Suggestions for however to instrumentality confidential computing protection.

Create video with AI and much successful caller Google Workspace offerings

Google unveiled a caller Workspace level called Google Vids (Figure C), with which generative AI tin assistance employees make promotional oregon informative videos.

Figure C 

A idiosyncratic provides a publication arsenic a punctual to springiness Google Vids an thought of what they privation their video to say. Image: Google Cloud

First, Google Vids volition make a storyboard the idiosyncratic tin customize. From there, Google Vids tin make the video and adhd voiceover with preset AI voices oregon customized audio.

Google Vids volition beryllium an wholly caller level that volition unrecorded alongside Docs, Sheets and Slides. Vids volition beryllium accessible done Workspace Labs successful June.

More Google Workspace announcements

• An AI gathering summarization and translation tool, which volition outgo $10 per idiosyncratic per month.
• File classification and extortion from the AI Security add-on, which volition outgo $10 per idiosyncratic per month.
• In Gmail, AI volition alteration “Polish My Draft” and “Help Me Write” tools, the second of which tin beryllium utilized via dependable commands connected mobile.
• Google Gemini is coming to Chat and Docs for creating screen images.
• Vertex AI volition beryllium integrated into Google Workspace.
• HubSpot hold for Gemini for Google Workspace.

Gemini 1.5 Pro comes to Vertex AI and Data Cloud

Google announced a batch of changes coming to the Data Cloud portfolio successful databases and information analytics. The largest was the availability of Gemini 1.5 Pro successful Vertex AI, which enables a 1 cardinal token discourse window.

SEE: Everything you request to cognize astir Google Cloud Platform. (TechRepublic) 

Google continues to grow Gemini’s integrations and capabilities — successful preview contiguous are Gemini successful Looker and Gemini successful BigQuery. Additional caller features successful BigQuery disposable successful preview oregon backstage preview contiguous see Vertex AI papers and audio insights, vector embeddings and matching, and more.

Other announcements (in preview unless indicated otherwise) include:

• Google Gemini successful Databases.
• Vector enactment and LangChain integration successful Databases.
• Vector support, earthy connection enactment and exemplary endpoint absorption for AlloyDB.
• Workload isolated entree from analytics engines successful Bigtable Data Boost.
• Expanded catastrophe betterment capabilities and nether 2 seconds attraction (in wide availability) successful Cloud SQL.
• New lawsuit size for Memorystore (in wide availability) and enactment for 2 caller persistence options successful Memorystore (in preview).
• Customer managed encryption keys successful Cloud Firestore.

TPU v5p enters wide availability

Google’s TPU v5p AI accelerator is present successful wide availability, allowing organizations to usage it for AI inference and training. In addition, Google Kubernetes Engine is present supported connected TPU v5p.

Advancing hypercomputing and unreality computing

Google Cloud volition beryllium moving with NVIDIA hardware to powerfulness Google’s AI grooming infrastructure. Announcements from the unreality infrastructure radical included:

• A3 Mega VMs powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for large-scale AI training, mostly disposable successful May.
• Hyperdisk ML, a caller artifact retention work for AI inference/serving workloads, is disposable successful preview now.
• JetStream, a throughput and memory-optimized inference motor for LLM training, is disposable connected GitHub today.
• Dynamic Workload Scheduler, a work for managing resources connected Google Cloud to optimize AI workloads according to computing capacity, is present successful preview.
• Duet AI for Developers is present Gemini Code Assist.

Competitors to Google Cloud

Google’s wide-ranging merchandise catalog means it has a batch of competitors successful antithetic sectors. In generative AI ecosystem and endeavor enactment successful particular, it competes and often interoperates with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, AWS, IBM, and SAP. The Axion spot successful peculiar could assistance Google propulsion into the information halfway spot abstraction dominated by Amazon and NVIDIA.

TechRepublic is covering Google Cloud Next ‘24 remotely.