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  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…

  • Cloud Blog: Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-veo-3-imagen-4-and-lyria-2-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models Feedly Summary: Today, we are introducing the next wave of generative AI media models on Vertex AI: Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2.  We’ve already seen customers generate stunning, photorealistic images with Imagen 3, Google’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Cloud Blog: What’s new with BigQuery AI and ML?

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-adds-new-ai-capabilities/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new with BigQuery AI and ML? Feedly Summary: At Next ’25, we introduced several new innovations within BigQuery, the autonomous data to AI platform. BigQuery ML provides a full range of AI and ML capabilities, enabling you to easily build generative AI and predictive ML applications with…

  • Cloud Blog: H4D VMs: Next-generation HPC-optimized VMs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-h4d-vms-optimized-for-hpc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: H4D VMs: Next-generation HPC-optimized VMs Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next, we introduced H4D VMs, our latest machine type for high performance computing (HPC). Building upon existing HPC offerings, H4D VMs are designed to address the evolving needs of demanding workloads in industries such as manufacturing, weather forecasting,…

  • The Register: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/googles_7thgen_ironwood_tpus_debut/ Source: The Register Title: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Feedly Summary: Sure, we’re doing FP8 versus a supercomputer’s FP64. What of it? Cloud Next Google’s seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216…