Global Big Data Conference

Google on Tuesday announced a broad swath of updates to its cloud offerings, aiming to capitalize on its strength in artificial intelligence to gain market share from rivals. The new services--announced at Google's Next '22 event--include Vertex AI Vision, which is designed to make it easier to use AI technology such as image recognition. There's also an AI-based service called Translation Hub that translates documents in 135 languages, the Alphabet Inc.-owned company said. Google is beefing up its cloud infrastructure as well, relying on a fourth-generation version of Intel Corp.'s Xeon Scalable processor and Google's custom Intel chip. The company unveiled a new C3 machine series that's powered by the chips, as well as an updated Tensor processing unit that helps accelerate AI functions.