Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian said that company seemed to be on the verge of increasingly strength as global demand for more IA technology continues.
Fresh of the accommodation of the opening speech to the Google Cloud of the company at next 25 in Las Vegas, Kurian told a question-answer session in the media to which Techradar Pro On the latest challenges the company is faced, as well as its myriad of success.
“(AI) simplifies the technology itself,” said Kurian in the session, “you have the same technology that manages Google, available for each small business … by simplifying technology, you bring it to everyone.”
“Extremely dynamic” price situation
“If you look at the highest level of what we are trying to do – it’s relatively simple,” said Kurian, stressing how Google Cloud has widened its world footprint to cover 42 regions around the world, with more to come soon.
“Our success is reflected not by what we do, but what customers and partners do with our technology,” he added.
“We are very well placed because of the extent of our portfolio – but also because of the differentiation of what we do with AI.”
Asked about the possible effects of American prices on affairs around the world, Kurian replied with a smile that the pricing discussion is “extremely dynamic”, and that Google Cloud has crossed many cycles like this (more recently in the crisis yields) and that it was convinced that the company will be able to navigate this period.
“There are many, many things we do as a technology supplier – we work as a global company, in a geopolitical context, and our solution is to work with governments to adapt our technology to government regulations, so that customers can use it on different markets.”
Kurian was also asked how Google Cloud plans to manage the increase in energy costs caused by the growth of AI demand.
Indicating that the company has done “a lot of work” in the past two years to “considerably reduce” the cost of training and inference of models, it noted that the company will continue to optimize the cost of models while improving quality.
Kurian added that Google Cloud has more than seven times the water -cooled AI systems like the rest of the combined world, and also worked for the implementation of nuclear energy and sustainable energy sources such as hydroelectricity and solar energy.
“For us, it is really important that people see AI as a technology that can also stimulate both the efficiency of energy consumption, and has also created new forms of energy due to the investments we make.”
