On August 29, local time, Google held the Google Next conference in San Francisco。At the meeting, Google announced an update to Duet AI, an AI-powered tool in Workspace (mainly for enterprise customers), and will start charging for it, which is one of Google's latest moves to commercialize AI.。

Google said: "We have released this plugin in response to strong customer demand, and we will continue to enhance and expand it.。Google also said the tools have been tested by more than 1 million users.。Google disclosed its new customers at the meeting, including General Motors, Estee Lauder Group, etc.。Google plans to launch more products in the coming months for other customer segments, including small and medium-sized businesses and consumers.。

Google sets price for Duet AI at $30 per user per month。It is worth noting that Google's pricing is with the smell of gunpowder。Because that's the same price Microsoft charges for its Microsoft 365 Copilot。Microsoft's Copilot was launched in July this year.。

Duet AI and Copilot are both positioned as intelligent assistants for office software。These two products are designed to provide artificial intelligence assistance to employees who often send emails, use spreadsheets and presentation software, draft documents, and spend a lot of time in meetings to improve efficiency.。

It is understood that Duet AI's new features include extracting information from documents to make summaries, and adjusting sound and lighting to improve the overall appearance in video conferences, and more。When using Duet AI's video conference notes function, it can not only grab text notes, but also grab video clips。

To enrich enterprise cloud services, Google has added 20 AI models to its Vertex AI platform, bringing the total to 100.。The basic AI models in it include Meta's AI model LLaMa 2, as well as the start-up company Anthropoic's Claude 2。

Google also announced a new version of its basic AI infrastructure。New version improves performance and features more。For example, there is a text model called PaLM that has been updated to expand the amount of text that can be entered to make it easier for users to work with longer documents, such as legal summaries and books。As another example, Google has launched an AI-powered tool that can migrate databases from Oracle to open source versions, a notoriously difficult task.。

Among the new tools released by Google, the most talked about is Synth ID。According to reports, Synth ID can add a "digital watermark" to an image generated by artificial intelligence, which is imperceptible to the human eye.。In other words, after the image generated by artificial intelligence is watermarked by Synth ID, the surface image will not be damaged, but there will be an easily recognizable image to let people know that the image is generated by artificial intelligence。Use the tool to effectively combat the misuse and falsification of AI images。

In terms of chips, Google released the fifth generation of tensor processing unit (TPU) chips at the conference.。This chip called Cloud TPU v5e is designed to accelerate machine learning。The company claims that compared to the previous generation v4 model, the training performance of Cloud TPU v5e on LLMS is doubled at the same cost。

At the meeting, Google also said that its A3 supercomputer will go on full sale next month.。

The A3 virtual machine debuted at Google's I / O developer conference in May。The A3 computer is powered by eight Nvidia H100 GPUs and is designed by Google to meet the needs of generative AI workloads such as large language models (LLMs).。