Google Cloud Launches New Startup Program To Accelerate Generative AI Adoption In Indonesia

Google Cloud Jakarta Summit 2023 (photo: dock. Image)

JAKARTA - Through the Google Cloud Jakarta Summit 2023 event, Google launched a new program to help organizations in Indonesia in order to innovate with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

"AI and especially generative AI will have a major impact on society and trade. Our goal is to help businesses create AI-based solutions, focus on industry regarding the unique needs of various sectors," said Google Cloud's Regional Director of Indonesia and Malaysia, Megawaty Khie in Central Jakarta, Thursday, June 8.

Along with this, Google Cloud also collaborates with several Indonesian companies that have utilized AI, to address important problems for the community, especially those that are less served. Such as Aruna, CoinWorks and Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI).

"(They) have been a great example of how this technology can be used responsibly to transform digital services and open up new opportunities for the people of Indonesia," said Megawaty.

"By providing skills courses, ready-to-use models, very developer-friendly tools, as well as new startup support in Indonesia, Google Cloud strengthens its commitment to empowering large and small organizations to be able to take advantage of generative AI innovations easily and quickly, while while still protecting their data, applications, and users," he added.

In addition, Megawaty also explained technology and the new Google Cloud program based on AI for businesses in Indonesia. The following is below.

Increasing AI Adoption Generatively By Companies

In the last four months, Google Cloud has introduced a number of technologies that allow the creation of a variety of cutting-edge innovations with a generative AI. Google Cloud announced the availability of Generative AI support on Vertex AI in general to help organizations accelerate their AI adoption.

This support includes the Model Garden which provides AI scientific and practitioner data at the company access to the ready-to-use generative AI model, and the Generative AI Studio to help them adjust the model and quickly integrate it into their own applications and websites, both internal and those provided for consumers.

The Garden model has more than 60 models from Google and a number of its partners, including models to summarize and translate text in multiple languages, have continuous conversations, create audio captions, create studio class quality images based on text descriptions, as well as create and improve software codes.

Google is evaluating its model strictly to ensure compliance with the Responsible AI Principle. When using Vertex AI, customers always have full control over their data. The data does not need to exit the cloud tenant environment provided by customers, is encrypted both when sent and when stored, and is not shared or used to train Google models.

Build Expert Human Resources For AI Economy

To make the door to a generating AI career more accessible, Google Cloud provides seven new generative AI skills development courses free of charge through the Cloud Skills Boost Program.

This new learning facility will help participants understand the differences between generative AI and other types of AI, how to customize the pre-trained AI-generative model for use, how to take advantage of AI responsibly, and more.

After obtaining a generating AI basic skills, participants can take machine learning (ML) courses and other science data. In addition, in this program there is also an IT certification that has been recognized by the industry. The Indonesian people can now take advantage of this opportunity to build and show their expertise in the field of AI cloud which is really needed by many companies.

Accelerating Local AI Startup Growth

To support more seed-stage startups to Series A in Indonesia that use AI as core technology in developing their main product or solution, the Google for AI Startups Cloud Program is now available to cover their cloud costs of up to US$350,000 over two years.

For AI-based startups in the pre-seed stage, the program provides free cloud credit of up to $ 2,000 to help fund their proof-of-concept development and show potential investors and customers their products.