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Google Cloud rolls out new GenAI products for retailers


To coincide with a major retail conference in New York, Google Cloud is launching a few tailored gen AI solutions.

Now, when eBay launched a similar AI-powered product-image-to-description capability a few months back, it didn’t take long before sellers began complaining about its performance — pointing to misleading, unnecessarily repetitive and in some cases downright untruthful text. In a related announcement today, Google took the wraps off of a retail-specific Distributed Cloud Edge device, a managed self-contained hardware kit to “reduce IT costs and resource investments” around retail gen AI. “With the … control plane running locally, Google Distributed Cloud Edge provides retailers non-stop operations even when their location is disconnected from the internet for short periods of time (days),” Eschliman said.

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