With timely human impulse generation artificial intelligence made waves in products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT And DALL-Eit’s only a matter of time before Google joins the fray.
“Developers and businesses can now try out new APIs and products that make it easy, secure, and scalable to start building using Google’s best AI models through Google cloud and a new prototyping environment called MakerSuite,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in an interview. blog post (opens in a new tab).
He also said that the new AI features in Google Workspace will help users create and cooperate About content.
Google’s AI investments
While Microsoft chose to invest in OpenAI (twice, even) to bring up ChatGPT Bing search engine, Google has developed its own solutions for Google Cloud and Google Workspace customers.
Google Docs has automatically generated document summaries and Smart Compose in Gmail predicted recipient names and other words.
The biggest development for businesses, however, is that apps are being pulled by ChatGPT’s own feature set, which can receive prompts like “Job post for regional sales reps” or ” Vegetarian pasta recipes” and turn them into text.
Only “selected” developers will be able to access Google Cloud tools in private preview right now, although it promises that the waiting list will open soon. The same goes for Google Workspace’s new synthetic AI features. These features will only be available to “a limited number of trusted testers” for the next few weeks.
And maybe it’s a good thing that Google seems to be taking its time to properly implement AI for Workspace, as Bing’s implementation of ChatGPT has intimidated users until… Microsoft steps in.
Therefore, despite that “code red” in December 2022not exactly Google Cloud, a subsidiary of the tech giant with an annual operating rate (ARR) of about $29 billion, either following trends or caught up in an arms race with rivals its main competition.
Kurian did Notification (opens in a new tab) in February 2023 (notably after Microsoft’s own announcement of its partnership with OpenAI) that Google had invested more than $300 million in Anthropic – an AI startup that included several former executives. OpenAI’s senior executive but claims that similar investments have been going on “for years”.
Its ultimate aim, with that investment, is to power Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude, with Google Cloud infrastructure.
