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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

Fundwell uses Google Cloud to make faster, data-driven decisions and improve the customer journey. Hear its story and how its building with Google Cloud from CTO Adam Anzuoni at #GoogleCloudNext ↓

We are excited that Google has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2 2024 report. We believe our placement as a Leader in this report reflects our commitment to ongoing research and innovation in the field of AI. Get a breakdown of the report, here → https://goo.gle/3RHnH0T

Subject: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2024! Dear readers, In this update, Taylor Lehmann, Director, Office of the CISO, shares remarks he made to the National Security Council this month on the steps Google is taking to help rural healthcare networks become more secure and resilient against cyberattacks → https://goo.gle/3XJUOF1 --Phil Venables, VP, TI Security & CISO, Google Cloud

Starting next quarter, Vertex AI will offer a new service enabling customers to ground their AI agents with specialized third-party data. This will help enterprises integrate third-party data into their #generativeAI agents to unlock unique use cases and drive greater enterprise truth across their AI experiences. We are excited to work with premier providers such as Moody's, MSCI Inc., Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo to bring their data to this service → https://goo.gle/45IhIP6

We've recently announced our expanded partnership with CME Group to enable the migration of markets to the cloud! Read how we're delivering ultra-low latency networking, high-performance computing, and increased access to cloud services and AI capabilities to CME Group + its clients → https://goo.gle/3VJQvXD

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

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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 ↓