Today’s reading list offers up items about the promise of AI, the skepticism of AI, and the implementation of AI. Plus other stuff too.
[blog] Different Shades of PLG: Free-Trial or Freemium? Does a forever-free product with feature limitations beat out a full-featured free trial? Sometimes, not always.
[blog] Launching a landmark partnership to support AI startups with Y Combinator. It seems both helpful and wise to assist startup founders in their tech journeys. Lots of these folks come to Google Cloud by default, but we’re making it even more attractive.
[article] How to Ask for Help Without Making Yourself Look Bad. This looks like good advice. I often don’t “start strong” and will focus on that.
[article] How to Implement a GenAI Agent using Autogen or LangGraph. Lak takes a couple of agent frameworks for a spin and shows how to use them with different LLMs.
[article] This Week in AI: Companies are growing skeptical of AI’s ROI. Be skeptical. Don’t take a vendor’s word for it. Run your own evaluations and studies, and see if AI can fix what needs fixing.
[blog] Can’t stop, won’t stop: More innovations from the Google Cloud database portfolio. We announced some solid updates at Cloud Next Tokyo today. Get SQL support in our Bigtable database, use the new graph database features in Cloud Spanner, and get a new tier of perf and uptime for managed SQL Server. News here and here.
[blog] Introducing Spanner Graph: Graph databases reimagined. I thought this was an informative deep dive into this new service. For those using graph databases, this might be a chance to consolidate.
[blog] Beyond temperature: Tuning LLM output with top-k and top-p. You could skip past this, but Karl does a great job writing an engaging post that helps us understand how to tweak the creativity of an LLM’s output.
[blog] New strides in making AI accessible for every enterprise. Wow. Now get support for 100+ languages in Gemini 1.5 Flash and Pro, along with a model uptime SLA, and dramatically lower cost.
[article] Report: High Risks to Software Supply Chains are Commonplace. Too many apps, too many alerts, and too little analysis.
[blog] Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Cloud SQL for MySQL. Very solid tutorial from Julia here, and I like the reuse of “boring” technology like MySQL.
[blog] 3 new Chrome AI features for even more helpful browsing. I don’t do a lot of fancy things with my browser and likely use a tiny subset of what it’s capable of. This upcoming feature that lets me ask question of my browsing history? I like that.
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