Deloitte and Google Cloud have announced a significant expansion of their decade-long partnership to help bring Google Cloud’s advanced Generative AI capabilities to enterprises in every industry.
Deloitte’s Generative AI practice will build and scale solutions to address the growing demand for Google Cloud’s Generative AI capabilities and solve significant business challenges with its AI technologies.
Deloitte is already using Google Cloud’s AI capabilities and large language models (LLMs) to develop industry-leading solutions that help enable businesses to be more effective and efficient. These solutions are designed with ease-of-use in mind so that developers, employees, and IT teams can immediately see value from their AI investments.
Deloitte’s Generative AI practice will utilize a range of Google Cloud technologies, including Vertex AI and the PaLM Foundation Model, along with Generative AI Studio and the open-source and third-party models accessible through Google Cloud’s Model Garden. These solutions will help maximize Generative AI’s potential for clients and provide tangible benefits to their workforces, such as analysts who work in financial services and marketers building campaigns for consumer businesses.
Google Cloud’s generative AI will be transformative for industry
According to Jason Girzadas, managing principal, businesses, global and strategic services and CEO Elect, Deloitte US, “We are seeing increasing demand from clients to help them advance their businesses through new and innovative AI capabilities. Google Cloud offers Generative AI capabilities that provide meaningful, real-world value to enterprises that will be a platform for industry and functional advancements.”
Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud, added, “Google Cloud’s advancements in Generative AI have the ability to transform work across industries, from providing employees with tools that help them become more productive, to enabling companies to connect with their customers in new ways. Deloitte has decades of experience helping improve businesses in every sector, and our joint commitment to bring the power of Generative AI to businesses in a safe and responsible way creates incredible opportunities for innovation with our joint customers.”
This announcement follows the launch of Deloitte’s own Generative AI Practice aimed at helping clients harness the power of Generative AI and Foundation Models to enhance productivity and accelerate the pace of business innovation. Deloitte is committed to the safe and responsible use of Generative AI, guided by its Trustworthy AI™ framework, which helps clients develop necessary safeguards and balance competing ethical priorities during product development and operation.
Deloitte has been recognised as Google Cloud’s Global Service Partner of the Year for four consecutive years, from 2017 to 2020, for the creation of comprehensive and compelling solutions that make a significant impact across multiple industries, such as financial services, retail and consumer goods, the public sector, and health care and life sciences. Deloitte has received Google Cloud Premier Partner Status, reserved for organisations that have demonstrated the highest levels of competency. This status provides access to premier-level training and tools, including specialisations in data management, cloud migration, data analytics, and machine learning.
Overall, the expansion of the strategic alliance between Deloitte and Google Cloud marks an important milestone in the integration of advanced Generative AI capabilities into enterprises across all industries. Deloitte’s commitment to the safe and responsible use of Generative AI will help ensure that the technology is harnessed in a way that is ethical, secure, and effective.
