At the Google I/O event, the company has announced a revamped cloud-based machine learning platform branded as Vertex AI. It's unusual for Google to announce cloud-related services at Google I/O, a forum for launching consumer and developer technologies. Since Cloud Next - the flagship cloud user conference - is postponed to October, Vertex AI found its place in I/O announcements. This is the third iteration of the Google Cloud ML platform since its original launch. What prompted Google to launch Vertex AI? Let's find out.

Google announced updates to its Cloud AI Platform that enhance training and prediction capabilities of machine learning and deep learning models. Google Cloud AI Platform is an end-to-end machine learning platform as a service (ML PaaS) targeting data scientists, ML developers, and AI engineers. The Cloud AI Platform has services to tackle the lifecycle of machine learning models. From data preparation to training to model serving, the platform has all the essential building blocks to develop and deploy sophisticated machine learning models. The most recent updates make training and deploying ML models on Google Cloud Platform flexible and powerful.

Remember the day when Steve Jobs announced the very first iPhone? Two important things happened that day. Number one, the world was getting a first glimpse at a new technology that was like no other: being able to touch your phone and therefore have the entire world at the tips of your fingers. Number two, everybody was certain this new technology would take over and somehow rule the planet in the next few years. Fortunately, we're still controlling our phones and they've not taken over the Earth for now.