Over 200,000 people have attended Google’s Gen AI training: Thomas Kurien

“More than 200,000 people have taken our online generative AI training courses,” said Thomas Kurien, chief executive officer at Google Cloud, on Tuesday. In March, Google Cloud introduced generative AI capabilities for businesses, governments and developers. In his keynote, Kurien spoke about the opportunities that would be opened up by Google’s Gen AI capabilities for Indian companies.

“At Google, we have been working with AI since 2004. We’ve been integrating AI into our products for almost 15 years,” Kurien said in his keynote address at Google Cloud Leader’s Connect in Mumbai.

“We have taken these AI tools and models and integrated them into our products. We’ve worked with a wide range of partners,” he said.

Some of the partners Google works with include 66degrees, Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, KPMG, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro. The partners bring their industry experience, business process knowledge and data science background to the relationship. Google Cloud offers partners early insight into its new technologies and technical support.

Google Cloud’s initiative is in line with the competition in the cloud computing space. AWS mentioned working with partners in April when the company launched several generative AI products. Microsoft last month called generative AI a “huge opportunity for partners” and key to an overall addressable market worth up to $6.5 trillion