Kawal Gandhi, Generative AI lead in Google Cloud's Office of the CTO, discusses where multimodal AI applications are seeing early real-world adoption.
Opinion
Gandhi: Generative AI surge is genuine engineering excitement, not hype
“So I see this as early excitement. It's not hype, so I want to decouple that. It's real excitement because engineers, we love it. Like, I've been one, you want to grab something, you don't want to have restrictions around it, and you want to show the art of th…”
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Gandhi: Model drift, ops, and safety will differentiate AI platforms
“Because we've spent a lot of time really specializing around the model drift, operations, tooling, safety around it, super early, but I think those are the elements that will differentiate on the platform from the next few quarters.”
Insight
Gandhi: Enterprises adopt AI for efficiency before pursuing creativity
“Inside the enterprise, folks want to be creative, but every time they think about efficiency gains inside their workflows. So how can I make my workflow better so I can invest back into my group? And then how can I make productivity better than I can make them…”
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Gandhi: Enterprise AI adoption started in sales and marketing
“It started from sales and marketing. Like as soon as these came out from a horizontal perspective, I think it has an intersection between horizontal and vertical for every department, whether regulated or unregulated. There's like bottlenecks and content creat…”
Insight
Gandhi: Multimodal AI will progress sequentially from text to audio-visual integration
“Multimodal, I think we're early stages now. So you're gonna see the early models, which are audio based. So I think about it like text, then images and text with Audio. And then you're kind of combining these medias together.”
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Gandhi: Plunging model and platform costs will drive AI adoption
“The expensive part is now becoming cheap is the models, the availability, the usage of the platform. Those were the things that were really expensive. I think you, if you do a cost craft you know, curve right now, and the investments you all are making into th…”