Busy, Busy Google

August 1, 2018

It looks like catch-up time for Google. We suggest Amazon may be the one keeping it up at night. Whatever the case, an Inquirer article summarizes several recent Googley bragging points—“Google Is Going Heavy on AI Development and Hybrid Cloud.” Reporter Roland Moore-Colyer writes about developments the company shared at their recent Cloud Next conference. He surmises:

“Most notable is the search giant’s work with AI; it’s been doing a lot with making cloud-powered frameworks for developers to tap into to make killer robots clever software. At its cloudy conference, it took time to announce two fresh automatic machine learning tools. AutoML Natural Language lets devs automatically predict custom text categories specific to domains Google customers desire, while AutoML Translation allows translated language pairs to be uploaded so devs can create their own custom translation models. In short, the two tools are further ways Google has boosted its Cloud AutoML suite that gives people the means to get stuck into machine learning models without specialist smart software knowledge or coding. The firm also announced that third-generation Cloud TPUs are in alpha development – these custom processors have been specifically designed to power machine learning tasks and the third-gen promises more performance. Google also added more stuff to its machine learning APIs, such as the Cloud Vision API, which can now recognize handwriting and supports more file types. Yeah, Google is big into AI development for sure.”

Colyer goes on to share more news from the conference, like improvements to the G Suite of enterprise-level services that include AI-powered grammar suggestions and region-specific security features. As for the Google Cloud, we’re told most improvements lie in stack management. However, special mention is made of Google’s hybrid approach to its Cloud Service Platform, which combines cloud and on-premise deployment. We’re reminded that Microsoft had adopted a similar approach, so customers will be looking for that flexibility.

Cynthia Murrell, August 1, 2018

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Google, News

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