ProBeat: Google’s Stadia is all about the cloud and AI

Last Tuesday, Google announced that Gboard now uses an on-device neural network for speech recognition. This Tuesday, Google announced the Stadia cloud gaming platform. In the span of seven days, Google managed to talk about the benefits of going from the cloud to the edge and about the benefits of going from the edge to the cloud.

This is one of the biggest decisions that companies are toying with today: What goes on the edge and what goes in the cloud? Google’s announcements perfectly illustrate that the answer is simply it depends.