Kaggle Enveloped By Google Cloud

On Thursday, at its Google Cloud Next ’17 event, the company detailed a number of updates to its cloud computing platform. The idea is to be able to translate a YouTube or video stored in Google’s cloud into keyword descriptions about its content.

Smith said Google has “all the technology in the world” but has only fairly recently, over the past three to four years, packaged it up as a cloud offering. They pressed that again during the opening day at the Google Next show, which runs this week in San Francisco.

Google Drive, Team Drives, and Google Groups now have general access to Google Vault, allowing users to establish retention policies, place legal holds, and perform searches across Drive, Gmail, Hangouts, and Groups. Google unveiled a new cloud service Thursday aimed at easing that pain. The problem is that enterprises Google needs to pluck from the reservoir are already tied to other cloud companies.

Sources tell us that Google is acquiring Kaggle, a platform that hosts data science and machine learning competitions.

Appearing on stage at Google’s Cloud Next conference in California, Bernd Leukert, SAP’s executive board member in charge of products and innovation, is set to announce the two companies are also working on joint machine learning initiatives to be unveiled at SAP’s own user conference in May. This might be where from Google took the chance and made the decision to acquire the data-science giant Kaggle.

Expansion of video API’s metadata to recognize millions of entities from Google’s Knowledge Graph. The API will also allow for companies to search for specific signals that are hidden underneath noise in a video for purposes of development and improvement of those signals.

ET reported last week that the India arm of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to add AI services such as speech recognition, text-to-voice services, visual search and image analysis, to its base infrastructure on which startups, enterprises and developers can build their products.

Though the Video Intelligence API is limited to those who are part of the beta for now, the tool could have far-reaching implications.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but nothing screams “enterprise” like SAP software, so it was an important endorsement for Google’s cloud efforts.

The relationship addresses the upswing of public cloud solutions. With machine learning, it also suggests different ways of cleaning the data.

It’s worth noting that the free tier is only available in Google’s us-east1, us-west1 and us-central1 regions. Schmidt admitted that as recently as a few years ago Google didn’t have a full cloud service offerings, but said that’s no longer the case.