Google adds more AI tools to its cloud platform

Tech companies bolsters its offering with new tools from Facebook-parent Meta Platforms and Anthropic

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet, speaking about the company’s artificial intelligence offerings at the Google I/O Developers Conference in May. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Tech giant Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Facebook-parent Meta Platforms and Anthropic to its cloud platform, the company has said.

The move announced Tuesday at Google’s Next ’23 event in San Francisco, is part of the company’s effort to position its platform as one where customers have the freedom to choose an AI model that best meets their needs, whether from the company itself or one of its partners. More than ...