BigQuery allows you to analyze your data using a range of large language models (LLMs) hosted in Vertex AI including Gemini 1.0 Pro, Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision and text-bison. These models work well for several tasks such as text summarization, sentiment analysis, etc. using only prompt engineering. However, in some scenarios, additional customization via model fine-tuning is needed, such as when the expected behavior of the model is hard to concisely define in a prompt, or when prompts do not produce expected results consistently enough. Fine-tuning also helps the model learn specific response st ..read more

To advance President Biden's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. Department of the Treasury joins forces with Google Cloud to reimagine talent acquisition. The Treasury will harness the newly announced Google Cloud Certificates to drive a new skills-based hiring effort to expand access to jobs in data analytics and cybersecurity. "In an age of rapid innovation and adoption of new technology offering the promise of improved productivity, it is imperative that we equip every worker with accessible training and development opportunities to understand and apply this new technolog ..read more

Google Cloud is on a mission to help everyone build the skills they need for in-demand cloud jobs. Today, we're excited to announce new learning opportunities that will help you gain these in-demand skills through new courses and certificates in AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Even better, we’re hearing from Google Cloud customers that they are eager to consider certificate completers for roles they’re actively hiring for, so don’t delay and start your learning today.  Google Cloud offers new generative AI courses Introduction to Generative AI Demand for AI skills is explod ..read more

We know you are hard at work as ChromeOS administrators. Across the globe, you are managing millions of ChromeOS Devices in education and businesses across the globe. Individuals who become ChromeOS certified are able to create their personalised profiles in the ChromeOS certified Directory and today we are thrilled to announce some new Professional ChromeOS Administrator certified benefits that reinforce our commitment to ChromeOS certified individuals. Read on for a look at what’s to come for our certified community. Starting today, an official ChromeOS certified digital toolkit will no ..read more

Google Cloud Next made a big splash in Las Vegas this week! From our opening keynote showcasing incredible customer momentum to exciting product announcements, we covered how AI is transforming the way that companies work. You can catch up on the highlights in our 14 minute keynote recap! Developers were front and center at our Developer keynote and in our buzzing Innovators Hive on the Expo floor (which was triple the size this year!). Our nearly 400 partner sponsors were also deeply integrated throughout Next, bringing energy from the show floor to sessions and evening events throughout the ..read more

Embeddings represent real-world objects, like entities, text, images, or videos as an array of numbers (a.k.a vectors) that machine learning models can easily process. Embeddings are the building blocks of many ML applications such as semantic search, recommendations, clustering, outlier detection, named entity extraction, and more. Last year, we introduced support for text embeddings in BigQuery, allowing machine learning models to understand real-world data domains more effectively and earlier this year we introduced vector search, which lets you index and work with billions of embeddings a ..read more

Delta Lake is an open-source optimized storage layer that provides a foundation for tables in lake houses and brings reliability and performance improvements to existing data lakes. It sits on top of your data lake storage (like cloud object stores) and provides a performant and scalable metadata layer on top of data stored in the Parquet format.  Organizations use BigQuery to manage and analyze all data types, structured and unstructured, with fine-grained access controls. In the past year, customer use of BigQuery to process multiformat, multicloud, and multimodal data using BigLake ha ..read more

At Google Cloud Next ‘23, we announced support in Database Migration Service (DMS) for Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations to make them smooth, intuitive and efficient. We also introduced integrated code and schema conversions to reduce friction in the most time-consuming phases of the migration. This week at Google Cloud Next ‘24, we unveiled Gemini for Google Cloud, a new generation of AI-assistive capabilities  based on Google's Gemini family of models, including Gemini in Databases.  In addition, we announced  the preview of a key feature of Gemini in Database: assistive code a ..read more

Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a fully managed relational database that offers native SQL Server features along with several Google Cloud innovations, and allows migrating databases while retaining their existing versions or upgrading to newer ones. But migrating SQL Server databases to the cloud can be daunting. Concerns about downtime, complexity, and security risks can hinder your move to  managed cloud databases.  This week at Google Cloud Next, we announced the preview of support for SQL Server migrations to Cloud SQL for SQL Server in Database Migration Service , a fully managed ..read more

In today's ever-evolving threat landscape, organizations require robust network security solutions to protect their critical assets in the cloud. Google Cloud is committed to providing superior cloud-first security controls, and today at Google Cloud Next, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Google Cloud NGFW Enterprise, our next-generation cloud firewall offering.  Cloud NGFW Enterprise (formerly Cloud Firewall Plus) is an evolution of our fully-distributed cloud-first firewall service that delivers comprehensive Zero Trust network protection for your Google Cloud wor ..read more