With the generative AI revolution fully underway, Google announced new AI tools in Google Workspace and a new prototyping environment for developers called "MakerSuite." The company stated that the new features will "help people harness the power of generative AI to create, connect and collaborate." The new features in Google Workspace (including popular services such as Gmail and Google Docs) will help users draft emails and compose documents easier with the power of AI. And although the company was scant on details on what the new tools would entail, it stated that users could simply input a topic they want to write about, and the AI would generate an instant draft for them. Google gives the example of a manager onboarding a new employee and using AI to generate the first welcome email.

Very soon, it would be impossible to think of a business software that doesn't have an element of AI in it, and to be more specific, generative AI. Google's AI team is constantly developing new AI-powered solutions for its entire range of offerings -- from Maps to Search to Google Docs, and now Google Workspace. In the recent times, we have been exposed to glaring challenges at workplace that restrict the way employees work and collaborate with each other. AI, by all means, has the power to ease the pain points at workplace and help organizations save millions by managing productivity at scale. In its latest announcement, Google did just that. Google Workspace is now embedding generative AI capabilities in Docs and Gmail to save users more time and effort in a meaningful and fully-secured environment.

Google Cloud is revolutionizing the way developers could be using generative AI for building new applications and platforms in the near future. The world's biggest AI company announced a new DevOps platform specifically built for accelerating and simplifying the generative AI development lifecycle. It's called PaLM API, a new AI developer offering to test and experiment with Google's Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI tools. To make prototyping quick and more accessible, developers can integrate PaLM API with another newly-launched tool called MakerSuite. Both tools are currently in private preview mode and would be accessible soon.

This morning, Google announced a laundry list of new generative AI capabilities and features for developers, through a PaLM API and in Google Cloud, as well as new integrations for users of Google Workspace, including in Gmail and Google Docs. The announcements come just a month after Google unveiled its search chatbot Bard and less than a week after Bloomberg reported that a new internal Google directive "requires generative AI to be incorporated into all of its biggest products within months." The news also appears in advance of Microsoft's highly-anticipated virtual'Future of Work with AI' event this Thursday. Thanks to comments last week by Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun, that event is rumored to include the release a multimodal GPT-4, as well as a ChatGPT upgrade for Microsoft 365 applications such as Word and Outlook. During a virtual press briefing yesterday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said that the AI announcements "represent the culmination" of many years of work, including bringing together Transformer technology advances in reinforcement learning and advances in parallelism and orchestrating large training workloads.