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Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

Google recently launched third-party generative AI inference for open models in BigQuery, allowing data teams to deploy and run any model from Hugging Face or Vertex AI Model Garden using plain SQL.
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Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Google Cloud is not the only provider offering options to query distributed data with a single SQL statement. For example, AWS provides cross-region data sharing for Amazon Redshift, and Athena can ...

For those stuck on the Google Skills BigQuery lab: How I learned to 'not take instructions literally' to get a perfect score

When I opened Gmail this morning, I received an email from the Google Skills team saying, 'Task 2 of Explore Data with Gemini in BigQuery has been fixed, so please try again.' I immediately retried th ...
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Semantic aggregation over millions of rows in BigQuery with AI.AGG

System logs generated by globally distributed microservices often hide subtle degradations (like memory thrashing or systemic ...