We are pleased to announce that Meta Llama 3 will be available today on Vertex AI Model Garden. Like its predecessors, Llama 3 is freely licensed for research as well as many commercial applications. Llama 3 is available in two sizes, 8B and 70B, as both a pre-trained and instruction fine-tuned model. Tune, Distill, and Evaluate Meta Llama 3 on Vertex AI Tuning a general LLM like Llama 3 with your own data can transform it into a powerful model tailored to your specific business and use cases. When developers access Llama 3 through Vertex AI, they will soon have access to multiple state of ..read more

Patent-search platform provider IPRally is growing quickly, servicing global enterprises, IP law firms, and multiple national patent and trademark offices. As the company grows, so do its technology needs. It continues to train its models for greater accuracy, adding 200,000 searchable records for customer access weekly, and mapping new patents. With millions of patent documents published annually – and the technical complexity of those documents increasing — it can take even the most seasoned patent professional several hours of research to resolve a case with traditional patent search tools ..read more

Returning from Google Cloud Next ‘24, we couldn’t be more excited with the different ways that startups are working with Google Cloud and leveraging it to grow and help their businesses. As part of our programming in the Startup Lounge, 28 startups launched new products and features during their time with us in Las Vegas. Here are some of the highlights of startups who showcased their groundbreaking innovation to attendees and peers across the three days of Next ‘24: Arize AI launched a new capability, Prompt Variable Monitoring, designed to help AI engineering teams automatically detect bug ..read more

Google Cloud's Immersive Stream for XR is a powerful cloud-based solution for rendering and streaming high-quality XR experiences. And now it’s getting even better with its integration of Unreal Engine 5.3. This latest upgrade unlocks a wealth of new features that empower developers to push the boundaries of immersive experiences. New features in Unreal Engine 5.3 will significantly improve development with Immersive Stream for XR. Some of the new features include:  Improved Lumen and Nanite capabilities deliver better visual results for hyper-realistic lighting and stunningly detailed ..read more

In today's data-driven world, organizations across industries are seeking ways to gain a deeper understanding of their customers. A Single Customer View (SCV) — also known as a 360-degree customer view — has emerged as a powerful concept in data engineering, enabling companies to consolidate and unify customer data from multiple siloed sources. By integrating various data points into a single, comprehensive view, organizations can unlock valuable insights, drive personalized experiences, and make data-informed decisions. In this blog post, we will take a look at how Telegraph Media Group (TMG ..read more

Storage-dense workloads need consistent performance, high SSD density, and predictable maintenance that preserves SSD data. Last week at Google Cloud Next ‘24, we announced the general availability of the Z3 machine series, our first storage-optimized VM family. With an industry-leading 6M 100% random-read and 6M write IOPs, an incredibly dense storage configuration of up to 409 SSD (GB) per vCPU and a highmem configuration (1 vCPU : 8 GB RAM), Z3 VMs provide a consistent performance and maintenance experience with minimal disruptions for storage-dense workloads such as horizontal, scale-out ..read more

At Google Cloud Next 2024 we announced the general availability of Hyperdisk Storage Pools, the first block storage offering from a hyperscale cloud provider to offer thin-provisioning, data reduction, and capacity pooling. Hyperdisk Storage Pools help you lower your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by as much as 30-50%, helping you achieve higher efficiency, modernize SAN-based workloads, and simplify block storage management. You can get started with Storage Pools in the Google Cloud console today.  In this blog post, let’s take a look at how Hyperdisk Storage Pools work, and how to incor ..read more

Organizations are increasingly adopting streaming technologies, and Google Cloud offers a comprehensive solution for streaming ingestion and analytics. Cloud Pub/Sub is Google Cloud’s simple, highly scalable and reliable global messaging service. It serves as the primary entry point for you to ingest your streaming data into Google Cloud and is natively integrated with BigQuery, Google Cloud’s unified, AI-ready data analytics platform. You can then use this data for downstream analytics, visualization, and AI applications. Today, we are excited to announce recent Pub/Sub innovations answering ..read more

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has emerged as a leading container orchestration platform for deploying and managing containerized applications. But GKE is not just limited to running stateless microservices — its flexible design supports workloads that need to persist data as well, via tight integrations with persistent disk or blob storage products including Persistent Disk, Cloud Storage, and Filestore. And for organizations that need even stronger throughput and performance, there’s Hyperdisk, Google Cloud's next-generation block storage service that allows you to modify your capacity, thr ..read more

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