Google zet vaart achter lancering nieuwe AI-producten

CEO Sundar Pichai van Google stuurde medewerkers dinsdag een memo over het “momentum” binnen het bedrijf, dat bezig is toepassingen van generatieve artificiële intelligentie in te bouwen in veel van zijn kernproducten.

In een e-mail waarover Insider beschikt, presenteerde Pichai een reeks nieuwe aankondigingen en producten die worden gelanceerd op de jaarlijkse Cloud Next-conferentie, die deze week plaatsvindt.

Pichai refereerde ook aan andere plannen, zoals een initiatief bij YouTube om samen te werken met de muziekindustrie aan de ontwikkeling van principes voor generatieve AI.

“Ik zie overal binnen Google vooruitgang”, schreef Pichai in de e-mail.

Google werd eind vorig jaar opgeschrikt door de komst van de populaire bot ChatGPT van startup OpenAI. Sindsdien heeft Google in een razend tempo generatieve AI-producten gebouwd en gelanceerd, waaronder de chatbot Bard.

In april kondigde de zoekmachinegigant aan dat het een van zijn belangrijkste AI-onderzoeksteams zou combineren met AI-dochter DeepMind, dat een nieuw AI-model genaamd Gemini aan het bouwen. Dit zou een bedreiging kunnen vormen voor OpenAI.

Google weigerde commentaar te geven tegenover Insider.

Dit is de volledige (Engelse) e-mail van Sundar Pichai:

"Hi everyone,

We have an exciting week ahead, full of strong product momentum from across the company.

This morning, we kicked off Cloud Next by sharing how we're helping Google Cloud customers use AI to solve challenges and operate in new ways. Just as we're incorporating the latest generative AI advancements in our own products, we're making them available to businesses and developers. Tens of thousands of developers are already using 100+ models in Vertex AI, Google Cloud's platform for building generative AI applications. Now, we're expanding Vertex AI's capabilities to allow customers to customize, integrate and deeply deploy foundation models into applications.

We also shared some news on Duet AI, our intelligent AI collaborator that helps you get things done in both Workspace and Google Cloud. More than one million people are already testing Duet AI in Workspace to write emails and docs, create custom sheets, and generate images in slides. Thanks to their feedback we've been able to rapidly improve the product since we first previewed it at I/O, and today, Duet AI in Workspace is generally available. Duet AI in Google Cloud has expanded its preview -- and is integrated with more of our products and services. It can now help organizations with expert-level coding, build and extract information from databases, and even be a cybersecurity adviser. You can watch the keynote to hear more on all our announcements at go/cloudnext23.

Google Cloud is having a huge impact on so many people and organizations. Through a lot of hard work and thoughtful investment, Thomas and team have built Google Cloud into a true industry leader, and we're just getting started.

I see this progress happening everywhere within Google: from our research teams at Google Research and Google DeepMind, to our recent improvements to the Search Generative Experience, which are making it easier for people to find and understand information from the web through new in-line definitions, AI-powered overviews with images and video, and decreased latency. We're getting more helpful feedback since expanding Bard to more countries and languages last month, and personally I've found the Google Lens integration to ask questions with images really useful. Over at YouTube, the team is making great progress with the music industry in developing AI features that support creative expression. And in a couple of months, our Devices and Services team will unveil their latest products. This momentum is the result of so many teams working hard across the company -- thank you!

Next month, we'll mark 25 years since Google was founded. It's inspiring to see Googlers carrying forward the optimism, ambition and velocity of those early days in the profoundly important work we're doing today. Look forward to celebrating that a bit during our birthday month, and to all the good work still ahead of us."

Sundar

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