Google Advances Cloud Data Platforms and Analytics Services with GenAI
Analyst Perspective
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has significant implications at all levels of the technology stack, not least analytics and data products, which serve to support the development, training and deployment of GenAI models, and also stand to benefit from the advances in automation enabled by GenAI. The intersection of analytics and data and GenAI was a significant focus of the recent Google Cloud Next ’24 event. My colleague David Menninger has already outlined the key announcements from the event as they relate to Google Cloud’s Vertex AI development platform and the Gemini multimodal large language models (LLMs), as well as Gemini-based GenAI assistants. In this perspective, I’ll take a closer look at Google Cloud’s progress as it relates to the company’s various data platforms, as well as the Looker analytics platform.