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Editor\u2019s note: Below is an edited transcript of Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s opening remarks as part of the keynote at Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud\u2019s annual event for customers and partners.<\/i> Check out our collection to read more updates from Cloud Next 2023.<\/i><\/p>\n
As I was walking over to the convention center this morning, I remembered the last time we were on this stage, back in 2019.<\/p>\n
Thomas had recently joined as Google Cloud CEO, and he shared his vision for helping customers through digital transformation. And I remember feeling like it was the start of something really exciting.<\/p>\n
Fast forward four years: Thomas and team have built Google Cloud into one of the top enterprise companies in the world.<\/p>\n
In my conversations with business leaders over the past few years, I\u2019ve heard a similar theme: They want a partner that’s been on the cutting edge of technology breakthroughs, be it from desktop to mobile, to the cloud, or now, to AI. And a partner who can help navigate and lead through them.<\/p>\n
These shifts can be really exciting \u2014 and they can also bring uncertainty. That\u2019s definitely true of the shift to AI. It will be the most profound shift we\u2019ll see in our lifetimes. It will touch every sector, every industry, every business function. And significantly change the way we live and work.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t just the future. We\u2019re already starting to experience the benefits right now.<\/p>\n
As a company, we\u2019ve been preparing for this moment for some time. And for the last seven years, we\u2019ve taken an AI-first approach, applying AI to make our products radically more helpful.<\/p>\n
We believe that making AI helpful for everyone is the most important way we’ll deliver on our mission in the next decade. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve invested in the very best tooling, foundation models and infrastructure, across both TPUs and GPUs.<\/p>\n
These underlying technologies are helping us transform our products and businesses \u2014and they\u2019ll help you transform yours.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take Search. We\u2019ve spent the last 25 years trying to perfect Google Search \u2014 and we\u2019re still not done. Today, we\u2019re using generative AI to reimagine the experience and take more of the work out of searching. We call this the Search Generative Experience, or SGE for short. SGE uses advanced AI to help you get the gist of a topic quickly with an overview, easily follow up on questions in a conversational way, or even make coding tasks easier. We\u2019ve had really positive feedback from people who\u2019ve used it so far, helping us learn and improve fast.<\/p>\n
As we build generative AI into Search, we are drawing on years of insights and technology development to harness and deploy AI at scale. Google Cloud is how we provide these same insights, tools and platforms to help you innovate too, sharing the best of our AI directly.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been really exciting to see how customers have started using generative AI, in just a short time. GM is using Google Cloud\u2019s conversational AI in its OnStar connected vehicles. And they\u2019ll continue to explore other ways to apply chat and document analysis to give drivers information when they need it. HCA Healthcare is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring Med-PaLM, our fine-tuned large model for healthcare, to help doctors provide better patient care. And US Steel, a leading manufacturer, is using generative AI to empower technicians to summarize and visualize instruction manuals, so they can make needed repairs.<\/p>\n
This is only scratching the surface of what we\u2019ve seen since making our foundation models available through our Cloud AI Platform, called Vertex AI. Tens of thousands of developers are now using over 100 AI models on Vertex, building generative AI applications. We\u2019re working with partners across our open ecosystem to expand the variety of models customers can choose, so they have the right model for whatever they want to create.<\/p>\n
Another area we\u2019re excited about is how generative AI can transform how businesses get things done. At I\/O, we previewed Duet AI. We think of it like an intelligent collaborator, one that\u2019s always by your side.<\/p>\n
More than 1 million people are already using Duet AI in Workspace \u2014 to write in Gmail and Google Docs, create custom Google Sheets, generate images from text descriptions in Google Slides and Meet, and much more.<\/p>\n
As people have been testing, we\u2019ve been listening and rapidly improving based on their feedback. And starting today, we\u2019re announcing the general availability of Duet AI in Google Workspace.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re also announcing new features and upgrades for Duet AI in Google Cloud Platform and expanding access to the preview. Customers can now use it to write code, as well as deploy and manage applications using the most popular dev environments.<\/p>\n
As exciting as the AI opportunity is, we all need to be clear-eyed about the potential challenges. That\u2019s why Google Cloud is so committed to developing and deploying technologies responsibly, with privacy, security and safety at the core, and guided by our longstanding AI principles.<\/p>\n
One area we\u2019re focused on is making sure that users can more easily identify when they’re encountering AI-generated content online, including digital watermarking. Using technology powered by Google DeepMind SynthID, images generated by Vertex AI can be watermarked in a way that is invisible to the human eye, without damaging or reducing the image quality. Verification tools are able to later search for these watermarks and identify whether the image was generated by AI.<\/p>\n
Today, we are pleased to be the first cloud provider to enable digital watermarking and verification for images generated on our platform. This product is now available in experimental preview to select customers and there is much more to come.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll continue to be bold and responsible in our approach, and make these powerful tools accessible so everyone can benefit.<\/p>\n
We truly believe we are embarking on a golden age of innovation, and we\u2019re excited for what we\u2019ll build, together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n