The Sequence Scope: Google’s Big ML Week

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📝 Editorial: Google’s Big ML Week

For years, Google I/O have been one of the most exciting conferences in the tech word given the number of exciting products that are regularly unveiled at this event. The 2022 edition of Google I/O took place last week and machine learning (ML) was front and center. Just like Microsoft’s Ignore AWS re:Invent, I/O provides a first row seat to the ML innovation happening at Google and the new additions to its ML stack.

This year’s edition of I/O was packed with ML announcements across software, hardware, and research. On the hardware and infrastructure front, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud TPU VMs as well as what can be considered the biggest ML compute cluster available. The new Cloud ML Hub boosts an astonishing 9 exaflops computation power. On the software side, Google announced support for 24 new low-resource languages in Google Translate, new ML capabilities for Google Maps as well as new libraries added to TensorFlow. Google also made available new versions of the LaMDA…