At Cloud Next, Google bets on AI everywhere

There's been a lot of discussion recently on how AI applications are evolving but based on many of the announcements that Google made at the Cloud Next event in Las Vegas, it seems increasingly clear that hybrid is where many of these developments are headed. To be clear, Google made an enormously and impressively broad range of announcements at Cloud Next and not a single press release specifically mentioned Hybrid AI. However, when you take a step back and analyze how several of the pieces fit together and look ahead to where the trends the company is driving appear to be going, the concept of GenAI-powered applications (and agents) that leverage a combination of the public cloud, enterprise private clouds and even smart devices-that is, Hybrid AI-appear inevitable. A few highlights first. On the cloud infrastructure front, Google made several big debuts at Cloud Next, most of which focus on the increasing range of computer architecture options coming to customers of GCP. Most no ... Read full article.