Google Cloud emphasizes the importance of sharing AI security research to build trust and mitigate vulnerabilities in this emerging technology. They believe open discussion and transparency are crucial for the AI industry to learn and improve security standards.

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Google Cloud Startup Summit showcased AI startups leveraging Google Cloud, with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian discussing the company's commitment to helping startups grow.

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Reltio migrated from self-managed Cassandra to Spanner on Google Cloud, resulting in amplified performance capabilities and seamless scalability.

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Shopify chose to use near real-time embeddings for product search to ensure updates are reflected instantly on websites. This streaming approach, despite its complexity, is believed to improve the customer experience and ultimately boost sales.

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Pradeep Muthuswamy, a retired major from the Indian Army, founded Vetnet Social, a startup that leverages AI to empower veterans in their career transitions. The platform provides veterans with the tools and support they need to successfully apply their military skills and experience to roles in the civilian workforce.

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Researchers fine-tuned Gemma models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques. They experimented with pre-trained and instruction-tuned base models, finding that an instruction-tuned model paired with its tailored dataset best aligned with their desired conversational outcomes. The team also explored quantized int4 models on T4 Google Colab notebooks and L4 GPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), but were limited by the 7b model's large GPU memory footprint.

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Google for Startups offers various programs to support startup founders, including accelerators, founder funds, cloud programs, and growth academies. These programs provide mentorship, training, and resources to help startups grow and succeed. The programs are tailored to different stages and needs, and are available to startups around the world.

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Google developed BigQuery history-based optimizations, a new query optimization technique that learns from previously completed executions of similar queries to improve query execution. This technique can make queries run faster and/or consume fewer resources, improving performance metrics such as elapsed time, slot time, and processed bytes.

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