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Databricks announces strategic AI partnership with Google Cloud
Databricks and Google Cloud have to make the latest Gemini models available as native products within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
This partnership empowers organizations to build, deploy and scale AI agents using Google Gemini’ s advanced capabilities directly on their enterprise data – securely and with unified governance – within their Databricks environment.
“ By using Google’ s Gemini models directly on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, organizations can build and scale AI agents tailored to their specific domains and data,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO, Databricks.
“ Gemini is advancing at an impressive rate, and it’ s no surprise that enterprises everywhere are seeing value from these models.”
“ Our partnership with Databricks is another critical step in helping every enterprise transform their businesses with generative AI,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.
“ By providing Databricks customers with direct access to Gemini’ s advanced capabilities, customers can more easily build and deploy sophisticated AI agents, automate complex data workflows and uncover more predictive insights from their own data, accelerating innovation at scale.”
Partnership Highlights:
• Native Databricks integrations: Gemini models will be made available and billed as native products within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
• Domain-specific AI agents: Organizations can now use Gemini models to develop AI agents capable of handling complex datasets and workflows
• Unified governance: Databricks Unity Catalog ensures end-to-end governance and responsible AI use.
• Enhanced productivity: AI agents can use Gemini to automate business processes, generate insights from live data and support decision making with current, context-rich answers.
SPP, Hitachi develop advanced AI solution for critical power transmission
SPP and Hitachi have partnered to solve critical and imminent problems slowing the modernization of US energy infrastructure.
The partnership will produce an integrated AI-based solution that accelerates generator interconnection( GI) by reducing study analysis times by 80 % while also informing faster, higher-quality decision-making by GI customers. This will markedly improve SPP’ s ability to facilitate the addition of its 14-state region’ s generating capacity to keep pace with increasing demand for electricity. modeling solutions; Hitachi R & D’ s AI-based energy grid algorithm; and Hitachi Vantara’ s integrated storage and compute platform Hitachi iQ, built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and AI software.
As the regional transmission organization( RTO) framing the project, SPP will guide the integration of these technical solutions and services.
SPP President and CEO Lanny Nickell said:“ There are a lot of would-be power producers out there waiting to connect to the grid, but yesterday’ s systems and technology haven’ t been sufficient to enable us to bring incremental capacity online fast enough. It’ s time to fix that and SPP is proud to work with Hitachi and NVIDIA, two AI industry leaders who have the means to help realize a vision of a better energy future for our nation.”
Currently, the US generates 1.28 terawatts of power with more than twice that generated amount waiting in a queue as unusable backlog caused by today’ s grid interconnect process.
To address this gap, the partnership draws on multiple Hitachi competencies for a complete solution including Hitachi Energy’ s energy portfolio management asset
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