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Thomas Kurian: 5 Big Remarks On Google’s Generative AI Future
Mark Haranas
Here are Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s boldest statements regarding Google’s generative AI strategy and future following the unveiling of new AI offerings this month for Google Workspace and Google Cloud.
Making Generative AI Accessible Through APIs
One huge strategy Kurian said Google Cloud is doing and will continue to do better than the competition is making its AI accessible and open-sourced for the developer community.
“Over the years, we have made our language advances and NLU [natural language understanding] capability, for example, available to the broad developer community either directly in open source or even embedded in our products like Google Workspace or in Google Search,” said Kurian.
However, he said this month’s unveiling of new generative AI capabilities is historic.
“This is the first time we’re taking our new generative AI models and making them directly accessible through an API to the developer community, as well as making a number of these new products available,” said Kurian.
Google’s new PaLM API can be used for a variety of applications and provides access to models that are optimized for multi-turn use cases—such as content generation and chat, and general-purpose models that are optimized for areas such as summarization and classification. With embeddings generated through the PaLM API, developers can build applications with their own data or on top of external data sources. Alongside the new PaLM API, Google unveiled a tool that lets developers start prototyping quickly and easily: MakerSuite.
