Google Cloud to Add GPU Chips in Early 2017

Google is bringing graphics processing unit (GPU) chips to its Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning to boost performance for intensive computing tasks like rendering and large-scale simulations. GPUs will be available from Google Cloud Platform worldwide in early 2017, according to an announcement this week. In a separate announcement on Tuesday the company announced a new Cloud Machine Learning group, and a series of moves related to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Google introduced its new Cloud Jobs API, which applies machine learning to the hiring process, as well as significantly reduced prices for its Cloud Vision API, and a premium edition of its Cloud Translation (formerly Google Translate) API. A blog post outlining Google's machine learning-related updates also announces the general availability of the Cloud Natural Language API.