What happened at Google Cloud NEXT?

The awaited event, Google Cloud Next ’24, made some exciting announcements last week in Las Vegas. Unveiling a staggering 218 new features, Google is gearing up to roll these out to the public in the coming months. I will mention a few which will be very useful.

Some of the Major announcements regarding Gemini:

1. Gemini for Google Cloud
2. Gemini Code Assist
3. Gemini Cloud Assist
4. Gemini in Security Operations
5. Gemini in BigQuery
6. Gemini in Looker
7. Gemini in Databases

These newly announced features assist users in working and coding more effectively, gaining deeper data insights, navigating security challenges, and more.

The next wave of innovations and enhancements is coming to Google Workspace.

1. Google vids — new AI-powered creation app
2. Using LLM Gmail can now block 20% more spam and evaluate 1000+ emails daily
3. A new AI Security add-on allows IT teams to classify and protect sensitive files automatically
4. Support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in client-side encryption.
5. Send emails easily when you’re on the go with voice input in “Help me write”.
6. A new table feature in Sheets- formats and organizes data with a sleek design and a new set of building blocks

Unraveling Next-Generative AI

1. The Cloud TPU v5p GA is now generally available.
2. A3 Mega compute instance powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs offers double the GPU-to-GPU networking bandwidth of A3
3. Confidential Computing is coming to the A3 VM
4. The NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform will be available on the AI Hypercomputer architecture
5. New caching capabilities for Cloud Storage FUSE
6. Introduced ML Productivity Goodput

And the most awaited VERTEX AI

1. Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available in public preview in Vertex AI, bringing the world’s largest context window to developers everywhere.
2. Vertex AI has expanded grounding capabilities, including the ability to directly ground responses with Google Search, now in public preview.
3. Gemini 1.5 Pro on Vertex AI can now process audio streams including speech, and the audio portion of videos.
4. Image editing is generally available in Imagen 2.0, including inpainting/outpainting and digital watermarking powered by Google DeepMind’s SynthID.

Building on natural language search and case summaries in Chronicle, Gemini in Security Operations is coming to the entire investigation lifecycle, including:

1. A new assisted investigation feature, generally available at the end of this month, guides analysts through their workflow in Chronicle Enterprise and Chronicle Enterprise Plus.
2. The ability to ask Gemini for the latest threat intelligence from Mandiant directly in-line — including any indicators of compromise found in their environment.
3. Gemini in Threat Intelligence, in public preview, allows you to tap into Mandiant’s frontline threat intelligence using conversational search.
4. VirusTotal now automatically ingests OSINT reports, which Gemini summarizes directly in the platform; it is generally available now.
5. Gemini in Security Command Center, which now lets security teams search for threats and other security events using natural language in preview, and provides summaries of critical- and high-priority misconfiguration and vulnerability alerts, and summarizes attack paths.