MAROKO133 Hot ai: The next AI battleground: Google’s Gemini Enterprise and AWS’s Quick Sui

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: The next AI battleground: Google’s Gemini Enterprise and

The friction of having to open a separate chat window to prompt an agent could be a hassle for many enterprises. And AI companies are seeing an opportunity to bring more and more AI services into one platform, even integrating into where employees do their work. 

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, although still a separate window, is gradually introducing more integrations into its platform. Rivals like Google and Amazon Web Services believe they can compete with new platforms directly aiming at enterprise users who want a more streamlined AI experience. And these two new platforms are the latest volley in the race to bring enterprise AI users into one central place for their AI needs. 

Google and AWS are separately introducing new platforms designed for full-stack agent workflow, hoping to usher in a world where users don’t need to open other windows to access agents. 

Google unveiled Gemini Enterprise, a platform that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said “brings the best of Google AI to every employee.” Meanwhile, AWS announced Quick Suite, a series of services intended to exist as a browser extension for enterprises to call on agents. 

Both these platforms aim to keep enterprise employees working within one ecosystem, keeping the needed context in more local storage. 

Quick Suite

AWS, through Bedrock, allowed enterprises to build applications and agents, test them, and then deploy them in a single space. However, Bedrock remains a backend tool. AWS is banking that organizations will want a better way to access those agents without leaving their workspace. 

Quick Suite will be AWS’s front-facing agentic application for enterprises. It will also be a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox and accessible on Microsoft Outlook, Word and Slack. 

AWS vice president for Agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian said Quick Suite is the company’s way of “entering a new era of work,” in that it gives employees access to AI applications they like with privacy considerations and context from their enterprise data. 

Quick Suite connects with Adobe Analytics, SharePoint, Snowflake, Google Drive, OneDrive, Outlook, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3. Through MCP servers, users can also access information from Atlassian, Asana, Box, Canva, PagerDuty, Workato or Zapier. 

The platform consists of several services users can toggle to:

• An agent builder accessible through a chat assistant 

• Quick Sight to analyze and visualize data

• Quick Research, which can find information and build out research reports. Users can choose to limit the search to internal or uploaded documents only or to access the internet

• Quick Flows to allow people to build routine tasks through simple prompts

• Quick Automate for more complicated workflows, where the model can begin coordinating agents and data sharing to complete tasks

AWS said it orchestrates through several foundation models to power Quick Suite’s services. 

Gemini Enterprise

Google had already begun offering enterprise AI solutions, often in fragmented products. Its newest offering, Gemini Enterprise, brings together the company’s AI offerings in a single place. Products like Gemini CLI and Google Vids will be integrated and accessible through Gemini Enterprise. 

“By bringing all of these components together through a single interface, Gemini Enterprise transforms how teams work,” Kurian said in a blog post.

It is powered by Gemini models and connects to an enterprise’s data sources. Gemini always connected to Google’s Workspace services, such as Docs and Drive, but Gemini Enterprise can now grab information from Microsoft 365 or other platforms like Salesforce. 

The idea behind Gemini Enterprise is to offer “a no-code workbench” for any user to surface information and orchestrate agents for automation. The platform includes pre-built agents for deep research and insights, but customers can also bring in their own or third-party agents. 

Administrators can manage these agents and workflows through a visual governance framework within Gemini Enterprise. 

Google said some customers have already begun using Gemini Enterprise, including Macquarie Bank, legal AI provider Harvey and Banco BV. 

Google told VentureBeat that other platforms, like Vertex AI, remain separate products. Pricing for Gemini Enterprise, both the standard and pulse editions, start at $30 per seat per month. A new pricing tier, Gemini Business, costs $21/seat per month for a year. 

Uninterrupted work in one place

In many ways, enterprise AI was always going to move to this more full-stack, end-to-end environment where people access all AI tools in one place. After all, fragmented offerings and lost context turn off many employees who already have a lot on their plates. 

Removing the friction of moving windows and possibly losing context to what you’re working on could save people a lot more time, and make the idea of using an AI agent or chatbot more appealing. This was the reasoning behind OpenAI’s decision to create a desktop app for ChatGPT and why we see so many product announcements around integrations. 

But now, competitors have to offer more differentiated platforms or they risk being labeled as copycats of products most people already use. I felt the same during a Quick Suite demo, thinking it felt like ChatGPT. 

The battle to be the one full-stack platform for the enterprise is just beginning. And as more AI tools and agents become more useful for employees, there will be more demand to make calling up these services as simple as a tap from their preferred workspace. 

🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: China launches world’s first dual-tower solar-thermal power pl

China has made a revolutionary breakthrough in renewable energy engineering after it just launched the world’s first solar-thermal power plant that utilizes a dual-tower system to generate electricity in the Gobi Desert.

Developed by the Three Gorges Corporation, a wind and solar energy company headquartered in Guazhou County, China, the new facility combines efficiency, innovation and large-scale clean power production in one of the planet’s harshest environments.

The Gobi Desert, the sixth-largest desert in the world located in north China and southern Mongolia, is extremely dry. It receives an average of two to eight inches of annual precipitation, with some areas receiving less than two inches per year.

This intense dryness, as well as the abundant sunlight of more than 3,000 hours a year, make the Gobi Desert an excellent environment for large-scale solar power generation.

The incredible solar-thermal power station reportedly features two 656-feet-high (200 meters) towers, each surrounded by a vast field of 27,000 mirrors known as heliostats.

Harnessing heat and light

According to the South China Morning Post, the mirrors concentrate sunlight onto the towers, where the intense heat reaching up to 1,058 degrees Fahrenheit (570 degrees Celsius), melts and stores energy in a high-temperature medium.

The stored heat is then utilized to generate steam that drives a turbine and allows electricity production to continue well after sunset or during cloudy weather.

Meanwhile, unlike conventional photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert sunlight directly into electricity, solar-thermal systems harness heat instead of light. This makes them one of the few renewable technologies capable of providing stable, dispatchable energy that can be generated on demand.

The dual-tower design boosts overall efficiency by about 25 percent compared to conventional single-tower systems. This works because each tower captures sunlight at different times of the day. While the east tower collects sunlight in the morning, the west tower takes over in the afternoon.

In addition, the two mirror fields even overlap slightly, reducing the total number of mirrors required and cutting construction costs, as heliostats account for nearly 60 percent of the plant’s total expense.

China’s solar innovation

The facility is part of a broader clean-energy hub that also includes massive solar and wind farms across the region. Together, these installations are expected to supply electricity to around half a million households annually.

For China, the project represents a strategic evolution in the country’s renewable energy landscape. The east Asian country rapidly expanded its solar and wind capacity in the past decade, particularly across its western provinces of Gansu, Xinjiang, and Qinghai.

According to Wang Zhifeng, PhD, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, solar-thermal power emerged not as a rival but as a complementary technology to PV, capable of bridging the gaps in energy supply.

China currently operates a total of 21 commercial solar-thermal power plants with a combined capacity of 1.57 million kilowatts. Meanwhile, another 30 projects under construction will add roughly 3.1 million kilowatts more. This places China as a global leader in concentrated solar power (CSP) deployment.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com