a host of updates to its artificial intelligence offerings for cloud computing customers, emphasising that the technology is safe and ready for use in the corporate realm, despite recent stumbles in consumer-facing tools.
Google’s chief rival in AI, the Microsoft-backed start-up OpenAI, is also courting corporate customers The race among the tech powerhouses is on. Google’s chief rival in AI, the Microsoft-backed start-up OpenAI, is also courting corporate customers. OpenAI now has more than 600 000 people signed up to use ChatGPT Enterprise, up from around 150 000 in January, chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said last week.Google’s enterprise push follows some embarrassing setbacks in the consumer market.
Those controls will now be augmented by the ability for corporate clients to ground Gemini’s responses in Google search. When this feature is enabled, the AI model will produce citations for every sentence of its outputs, based on its retrieval of information from Google search results.
Google was keen to point out how it works with AI start-ups, which it sees as a key source of cloud business The company also rolled out a series of Gemini applications for cybersecurity, which Google says will help clients analyse threats and address potential vulnerabilities. The features build on Google’s US$5.4-billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Mandiant in 2022. Google’s AI-powered security features can help companies be more proactive about combating bad actors, said Eric Doerr, vice president of cloud security engineering.