Roughly a year ago, Google launched Cloud AutoML, a platform for creating custom AI models, ahead of the debut of its ML Kit suite of machine learning tools for Firebase. Since then, the Mountain View company has slowly but steadily added prebuilt AI models addressing text translation, image classification, and other tasks to the portfolio. And today, it's updating a subset of those -- AutoML Vision Edge and AutoML Video -- with enhanced capabilities. Google also this week announced the rollout in beta of AI-based recommenders for Google Cloud Platform, which automatically suggest ways to make cloud deployments more secure and cost-effective without compromising performance. As of today, recommenders for Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Compute Engine are available to all Google Cloud customers.