No Priors Ep. 37 | With Kawal Gandhi

As the Lead for Generative AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud, Kawal Gandhi has a unique vantage point on enterprise AI roll out. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Gandhi this week to discuss his insights on how enterprises can effectively invest and roll out AI development and tools, the best use cases for Google Colab TPU, and Google’s internal AI applications driving external customer success. Plus, when will email get more efficient? Kawal Gandhi works in the Office of the CTO of Google Cloud, where his main focus is AI/ML. He has worked at Google for nearly a decade in search and ad roles before focusing on the development and marketing of AI tools. 00:00 - Generative AI in Google Cloud 09:05 - AI Adoption for Enterprise 13:31 - Multi-Modal AI Models 16:19 - AI Adoption, Investment Cost, Anti-patterns 24:43 - Google's TPU and NVIDIA GPU shortage 31:00 - Data Marketplace and Model Training

Sarah GuohostKawal GandhiguestElad Gilhost

Oct 19, 202332mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: October 19, 2023
Duration: 32m
Channel: No Priors
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

As the Lead for Generative AI in the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud, Kawal Gandhi has a unique vantage point on enterprise AI roll out. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Gandhi this week to discuss his insights on how enterprises can effectively invest and roll out AI development and tools, the best use cases for Google Colab TPU, and Google’s internal AI applications driving external customer success. Plus, when will email get more efficient? Kawal Gandhi works in the Office of the CTO of Google Cloud, where his main focus is AI/ML. He has worked at Google for nearly a decade in search and ad roles before focusing on the development and marketing of AI tools. 00:00 - Generative AI in Google Cloud 09:05 - AI Adoption for Enterprise 13:31 - Multi-Modal AI Models 16:19 - AI Adoption, Investment Cost, Anti-patterns 24:43 - Google's TPU and NVIDIA GPU shortage 31:00 - Data Marketplace and Model Training

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Sarah Guo
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Kawal Gandhi
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Elad Gil
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Sarah Guo and Kawal Gandhi, No Priors Ep. 37 | With Kawal Gandhi explores inside Google Cloud’s Generative AI Strategy: Models, Trust, and Scale Kawal Gandhi from Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO explains how generative AI has become a core differentiator for Google Cloud, evolving from internal tooling and Workspace experiments into broadly available platform capabilities. He describes how customers progress from quick API prototypes to production systems that demand governance, reliability, and secure data handling. Gandhi highlights Vertex AI’s model garden, domain-specific models like Med-PaLM, and support for open-source models, all underpinned by Google’s infrastructure, TPUs/GPUs, and operational tooling. A major theme is building trust: starting with efficiency and productivity gains, then expanding to creative and multimodal use cases as costs fall and organizational maturity rises.

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