Google Cloud has added the Llama 3.1 family of models, including a new 405B model, to its Vertex AI Model Garden. The Llama models are Meta's most powerful and versatile models to date. These models can be delivered as fully-managed Model-as-a-service (MaaS) offerings, allowing users to access them via an API and deploy on Google Cloud's infrastructure.

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Google's Spanner, a fully managed, globally distributed database, now allows dual-region configurations for data residency in countries with only two Google Cloud regions. This feature enables 99.99% availability without requiring a third region outside the country. Spanner processes over 4 billion queries per second at peak and powers demanding, global workloads across various industries.

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Lowe's introduced Visual Scout, an interactive way to explore the product catalog and quickly find products of interest on lowes.com, using Vertex AI Vector Search to enhance the shopping experience.

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LiveX AI, a company founded by experienced entrepreneurs and distinguished tech leaders, builds custom AI agents on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) infrastructure to deliver human-like customer experiences. The AI agents can see, hear, chat, and show to provide a personal touch to customers. This technology aims to overcome the challenges of traditional call centers and chatbots.

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Datastream has announced the general availability of its SQL Server source, allowing users to easily and reliably replicate data from SQL Server databases to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and other Google Cloud destinations. This serverless change data capture and replication service provides a fully managed, scalable, and reliable solution for integrating data with Google Cloud services.

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Deckmatch, a company that uses artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, has developed a solution to transform investment deal flow for venture capitalists. The solution stores extensive company data in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, providing investors with comprehensive insights on startups and their competition. This eliminates manual effort, allowing investors to focus on strategic initiatives and make timely investment decisions with confidence.

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Google Cloud Storage's client library transfer manager helps maximize throughput for data-intensive applications such as analytics and AI/ML by parallelizing uploads and downloads. The module is generally available for Java, Node.js, and Python, and is designed to add functionality to key client libraries to improve performance.

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Generative AI agents are transforming enterprise workspaces, but concerns persist around safeguarding sensitive user data. The data privacy dilemma is a critical issue, especially with the use of machine-learning techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to optimize the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models.

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Looker, a leader in data visualization and intelligent reporting, has previewed Google Slides generation in Gemini, allowing users to create presentations with insightful chart summaries from Looker Studio Pro in seconds. This feature leverages Google's technology to accelerate data storytelling and eliminate the need to manually move data and imagery from BI tools into slides.

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At Google, we believe that understanding the relative 'health' of the Internet can help proactively identify and address conditions that make the internet unhealthy, unsafe, and insecure. This approach is known as Cyber Public Health (CPH), which applies the principles and science of public health to cybersecurity. Google is excited to announce its support for the practice of CPH, which can help understand if individual efforts to secure systems are adding up to a greater overall cyber public health benefit.

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