Google unveiled a series of updates to its enterprise AI offerings at its annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas. Despite recent troubles with consumer-facing tools, the company insisted the technology is safe and ready for enterprise use. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian demonstrated how its most powerful AI model, Gemini, can be used for advertising, cybersecurity, video and podcasts. Google also unveiled a new chip designed to handle the massive AI workloads and control the rising costs associated with them.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the latest news from Google:
For example, Google unveiled “Vids,” an AI-powered app for creating videos that offers a user-friendly interface, templates, and integration with existing Google services. Although there are already numerous AI video tools on the market, Google Vids may score points for its convenience and seamless integration into Google Workspace, even if it does not replace dedicated video software.
Google’s most powerful generative AI model, Gemini Pro 1.5, is now available in public preview on the Vertex AI development platform. With a context of up to one million tokens, it enables analysis of large documents, long conversations with chatbots, and processing of audio and video content.
Google also announced updates to its Imagen 2 AI image generation model, including the ability to create four-second animations from text instructions and to add or remove image elements or expand the image area. These enhancements are designed to help businesses create engaging visual content that meets their brand guidelines and governance requirements.
Google Workspace is also introducing AI-powered features to streamline meetings and improve data security. This includes two paid programs that use Google’s own AI Gemini to make meetings more efficient and protect sensitive data.
Finally, Google has introduced RecurrentGemma, a new, efficient language model that enables advanced AI text processing even on resource-constrained devices such as smartphones and IoT systems.