Gemini 1.5 Flash’s strong capabilities, low latency, and cost efficiency have quickly made it a favorite among our customers—offering many compelling advantages over comparable models like GPT 3.5 Turbo: ⚡ 1 million token context window, which is approximately 60x bigger than the context window provided by GPT-3.5 Turbo ⚡ On average, 40% faster than GPT-3.5 Turbo when given input of 10,000 characters ⚡ Up to 4X lower input price than GPT-3.5 Turbo, with context caching enabled for inputs larger than 32,000 characters. Learn more about Gemini 1.5 Flash—now generally available → https://goo.gle/4bCTqaJ

One handy post for how we're expanding the grounding capabilities in Vertex AI Agent Builder to help our customers build more capable agents and apps: 1) Grounding with Google Search, now GA, will soon offer 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹, a new capability to help customers balance quality with cost efficiency by intelligently selecting when to use Google Search results and when to use the model’s training data. 2) 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲, announced in experimental preview today, is a new feature of our grounded generation API that will further reduce hallucinations. 3) Starting in Q3, Vertex AI will offer a new service enabling customers to 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮. We are excited to work with providers such as Moody's, MSCI Inc., Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to enable access to their datasets. 4) We’re expanding 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, the engine powering embeddings-based RAG, to offer hybrid search, now in Public Preview. Learn more about our commitment to helping businesses realize the full potential of grounded #generativeAI in the real world → https://goo.gle/3XHwun7

Loving Gemini 1.5 Flash? Hear more from our Google Cloud AI Champions on how they are using our newest multimodal models in Vertex AI: - #PromptEngineering created this informative video to explore practical use cases, focusing on building a customer support agent that performs sequential and parallel function calls using the latest Gemini Flash → https://goo.gle/3zjSAC1 - Is Gemini Flash the most cost-effective AI model yet? Watch this video made by #StorageFreak to find out → https://goo.gle/3KZzcge - Check out this fun experiment from Rubens Zimbres on generating conversation between Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton → https://goo.gle/3W1YSis - For developers looking to fix bugs more efficiently, Kanshi Tanaike’s new Medium post on expanding error messages for Google Apps Script using Gemini 1.5 Flash is here to help → https://goo.gle/3L8VmfX - Find out how Gemini Flash’s multimodality works for analyzing films in Yucheng Wang's Medium post on Sherlock Jr → https://goo.gle/3L0AlnE

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AI in marketing: It's time to move from the "wow" of 2023 to the "how" of 2024 with our framework, the "AI for Marketing Engine." In this LinkedIn newsletter, Alison Wagonfeld and Marie Gulin-Merle just returned from the #CannesLions2024 International Festival of Creativity, where they spoke about this new AI framework. Take a look at how it can help you take advantage of AI in your marketing. There's even an assessment of what you're doing against what's possible ↓

Get to know Gemini for Google Cloud! This generation of AI agents helping users work and code, gain deeper data insights, navigate security challenges, and more → https://goo.gle/3xhy6Js

#generativeAI unicorns are real, and nearly 90% of them use Google Cloud! Learn how AI from Google Cloud is powering innovation and helping build the next generation of AI startups →https://goo.gle/4cFnH9L #TheNewWayToCloud

Commerzbank was one of the first financial services institutes in the European Union to leverage VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) at scale starting in early 2021. Read how Commerzbank AG used VPC-SC to mitigate data exfiltration, control data sharing, and establish separated environments across the organization → https://goo.gle/3L5jtMx

We’re excited to share that Google has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Learn more about why Google was recognized based on the Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute → https://goo.gle/45Lc7HJ

The first stop on our summer learning road trip is the Google Cloud Arcade 👾 The more you learn on Google Cloud Skills Boost, the more points you earn to claim cool swag. Ready to level up? Play now → https://goo.gle/45xNwGl