Despite being increasingly commonplace in homes and businesses around the world, the broader benefits of AI are viewed by some as questionable.
In the enterprise world, opportunities are probably much clearer, and Google Cloud is one of the companies trying to show off these profits to all.
In the recent Google Cloud Summit London, I spoke with Mauren Costello, the Vice President of the UK and Ireland, and Mauren Costello of Google Cloud to find out how the company sees the current state of the market and what it can do in the future to further promote these opportunities.
I'm leaning against ai
“I think we're beginning to think that AI is being used in a very “everyday” way for our customers in all industries,” Costello said in his keynote speech at the event.
“We've seen our customers really leaning towards AI… from the experiment, we're really leaning towards using AI as an active collaborator.”
This is mostly AI agents, which provides many promises by streamlining the process and freeing up time and resources for over-stretched human workers.
The company announced its agent AI tools and services for Google Cloud at its next 25 events earlier this year. This includes several upgrades to the Agent Space platform, making it easier to discover and recruit agents.
Among the announcements were a new agent gallery to quickly find and deploy new agents, a tool to create agents on a new no-code agent designer platform, and Agent2Agent, a new interoperability protocol that allows AI agents to communicate with each other.
“Customers are really leaning towards an agent AI era and are thinking about what this means for the business,” Costello points out.
Google Cloud Summit London's many agendas are the new partnership between the company and the UK government, with up to 100,000 civil servants being trained to effectively use AI.
However, the event was an opportunity for Google Cloud to show off its rich clientele throughout the region, and how they are growing and thriving its tools (and AI).
“This is a strong partnership with the UK government and UK businesses,” Costello said.
“We're investing heavily in helping the UK introduce digital foundations… It makes sure people are able to focus on what they really want to do at work, or have the ability to change jobs… We think it will lead to the workforce.”
This isn't just about talking about – Costello notes that Google developers and engineers use AI-enabled code assist tools internally to help them write code.
Open, trust, safe
With AI dominating the news agenda, it can be difficult for businesses to choose which provider to suit, but Costello has, of course, only one option.
“Our approach to the cloud is fundamentally different — it's built on a foundation of being open, trusted and secure,” she says.
“It's really important that customers have freedom through open clouds. So the commitment to openness lies in open source technologies such as Kubernetes, which means that companies can run the cloud.
“From a security perspective, we believe we have the best security on the planet – we protect from a consumer perspective. There are so many people using Gmail, YouTube every day – this is the security we add to our enterprise products,” we continue to invest. Mandiant also gives us. ”
“So we really want to help our customers protect their full property, whether they are using us or not, and we know that they want to have control over their data and have access to their data.
So the message from Google Cloud looks transparent – AI stays here and the more your business accepts it, the more possibilities you can realize.
