Summary

Google has made considerable contributions to the field of ML and many of the capabilities being launched through Google Cloud are an extension of this work. Where the Google Research or DeepMind teams might’ve historically shared their research exclusively through research papers and eventually open source projects, they can now deliver capabilities directly to Google Cloud customers through the Vertex AI platform and other associated services.

Whether you have a structured data problem to be solved with ML or just need to scrape the information that resides in scanned document files, you will likely find a service or set of services that can help on Google Cloud. Not only does Google Cloud have an extremely robust offering for its infrastructure, foundation models, and APIs, but it also has an extremely mature security posture, which allows it to deliver best-in-class security for any work being done on Google Cloud. In the next section of this book, we’ll...