Today more than ever, customers ask for help addressing two critical business needs: reimagining their application portfolios and driving cost savings. Earlier today, we announced Google Cloud App Modernization Program, or Google CAMP. We built this program to help you innovate faster, so you can reach your customers with world-class, secure, reliable applications, all while saving on costs. Google CAMP does this with a consistent development and operations experience, tools, best practices and industry leading-guidance on how to develop, run, operate and secure applications.

A key component of Google CAMP is Anthos, our hybrid and multi-cloud cloud modernization platform. In fact, we recently announced BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics solution, powered by Anthos. And today, building on that momentum, we’re excited to share several new Anthos capabilities with you.

Bring AI to hybrid environments

Whether it’s image recognition, pattern detection, conversational chatbots, or any number of other emerging use cases for artificial intelligence (AI), organizations are eager to incorporate AI functionality into their offerings.

AI models require a lot of data, which more often than not resides in an organization’s data center—not in the cloud. Further, many organizations’ data is sensitive and must stay on-prem. As a result, you’re often forced to rely on fragmented solutions across on-prem and cloud deployments, or to minimize your use of AI entirely. With Anthos, you don’t have to make those types of compromises.

Today we’re pleased to announce hybrid AI capabilities for Anthos, designed to let you use our differentiated AI technologies wherever your workloads reside. By bringing AI on-prem, you can now run your AI workloads near your data, all while keeping them safe. In addition, hybrid AI simplifies the development process by providing easy access to best-in-class AI technology on-prem.

The first of our hybrid AI offerings, Speech-to-Text On-Prem, is now generally available on Anthos through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Speech-to-Text On-Prem gives you full control over speech data that is protected by data residency and compliance requirements, from within your own data center. At the same time, Speech-to-Text On-Prem leverages state-of-the-art speech recognition models developed by Google’s research teams that are more accurate, smaller, and require less computing resources to run than existing solutions.

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