Google Cloud Update: February 2024

Google Cloud Update Summary - February 2024

The summary of essential information about Google Cloud in February 2024

AI & MACHINE LEARNING

⭐ Google Cloud expands access to Gemini models for Vertex AI customers

Google is bringing more Gemini models to our customers with new updates and expanded availability:

• Gemini 1.0 Pro, the best model for scaling across AI tasks, is now generally available to all Vertex AI customers. 
• Gemini 1.0 Ultra, the most sophisticated and capable model for complex tasks, is now generally available on Vertex AI for customers via allowlist.

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⭐ Context-aware code generation: Retrieval augmentation and Vertex AI Codey APIs

Explore how to use RAG to improve the output quality of Google Cloud AI models for code completion and generation on Vertex AI using its Codey APIs, a suite of code generation models that can help software developers complete coding tasks faster. Read more.

⭐ Automate public website indexing for efficient semantic search with Vertex AI

Discover how the exciting field of Generative AI, specifically tools like Vector Search and large language models (LLMs), are revolutionizing search capabilities. Read more.

⭐ Unlocking New Frontiers: The Synergy of of Audio Transcripts using Video Intelligence API and Generative AI

The potential of video analytics and generative AI to revolutionize industries is immense. These technologies are opening new frontiers in automated insights, decision-making, and content generation. By marrying AI insight and audio data, organizations are realizing benefits across the span of business, from increased sales and revenue to enhanced customer experiences and reduced costs. Any organization not exploring these tools risks falling behind the competition.By marrying AI insight and audio data, organizations are realizing benefits across the span of business, from increased sales and revenue to enhanced customer experiences and reduced costs. Any organization not exploring these tools risks falling behind the competition. Read more.

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

⭐ Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs

Google introduces you to a novel solution that allows developers to harness the power of LLMs locally on CPU and memory, right within Cloud Workstations, Google Cloud’s fully managed development environment. Read more.

CONTAINERS & KUBERNETES

⭐ Announcing the general availability of Network Function Optimizer for GKE Enterprise

Google announces that Network Function Optimizer is generally available for GKE Enterprise, the premium edition of Google Kubernetes Engine. Read more.

DATA ANALYTICS

⭐ Synthesized creates accurate synthetic data to power innovation with BigQuery

Synthesized helps organizations gain faster access to data and navigate compliance restrictions by using generative AI to create shareable, compliant snapshots of large datasets. These snapshots can then be used to make faster and more informed business decisions, and power application development and testing. It does this by helping organizations overcome many of the obstacles to fast and compliant insights. Read more.

⭐ Leveraging streaming analytics for actionable insights with gen AI and Dataflow

Google showcases how to get real-time LLM insights in an easy and scalable way using Dataflow. Our solution applies to a gameroom chat, but it could be used to gain insights into a variety of other types of data, such as customer support chat logs, social media posts, and product reviews — any other domain where real-time communication is prevalent. Read more.

⭐ Introducing vector search in BigQuery

Today, Google is announcing the public preview of vector search in BigQuery, which enables vector similarity search on BigQuery data. Read more.

DATABASES

⭐ Firestore Multiple Databases is now generally available

Today, Google is announcing the general availability of Firestore Multiple Databases, which lets you manage multiple Firestore databases within a single Google Cloud project, enhancing data separation, security, resource management, and cost tracking. With this milestone, multiple databases are now fully supported in the Google Cloud console, Terraform resources, and all of Firestore’s SDKs. Read more.

⭐ Exploring Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition for your MySQL and PostgreSQL workloads

Today, Google is announcing the availability of Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition in more regions around the world. The new regions with Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition support. Read more.

Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp