Google for Brazil 2024: New AI-powered features, digital training and more

Today we held the sixth yearly Google for Brazil event, wherever we shared our latest investments and innovations successful the country. That included caller Android features and Search experiences coming to Brazil, integer skills grooming efforts and our section economical interaction successful 2023.

New features and experiences coming to Brazil

Android

At Google I/O, we announced new Android features that usage AI to support radical and their information if their smartphone gets stolen. Brazilian idiosyncratic feedback inspired these anti-theft features, and the state volition beryllium the archetypal to trial them out. Brazilian users volition person entree to a new theft detection lock, offline instrumentality fastener and distant lock. To get started, capable retired the signifier astatine goo.gle/android-seguro.

Search

Today we besides unveiled caller Search experiences successful Brazil. For example, section users volition soon beryllium capable to commencement conversations with companies via substance connection oregon WhatsApp connected their Business Profile — an wholly caller enactment lone disposable successful Brazil. And they tin docket section doc and quality appointments straight successful Search. Meanwhile, section edifice owners tin scan their menus with AI to make a integer mentation successful seconds, freeing up their clip to absorption connected customers.

NotebookLM

NotebookLM, a probe and penning assistant, is now available successful Brazil and successful Portuguese. Using Gemini 1.5 Pro, the instrumentality tin make summaries, FAQs, survey guides and much based connected uploaded documents.

AI opportunities

James Manyika, Senior Vice President of Research, Technology & Society, shared his imaginativeness for AI and however we’re moving with Brazil to pat into this accidental — including an AI accelerator programme to enactment startups. He reinforced our committedness to processing AI to positively interaction society, from mundane tasks to larger societal challenges, similar detecting diseases and adapting to clime change.

Royal Hansen, Vice President of Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, described however we’re utilizing AI to summation the information of products. Gmail’s AI-powered defenses, for instance, automatically artifact 99.9% of threats from reaching inboxes. To assistance america proceed these important efforts, we're expanding our Privacy, Safety and Security squad to Brazil, wherever we’ll unfastened a 2nd engineering halfway successful 2026.

New integer skills training

Since 2017, we’ve trained much than 3 cardinal radical successful Brazil successful integer skills done Grow with Google. Now we’re launching 2 caller online courses to assistance Brazilians physique in-demand skills: AI Essentials teaches participants however to usage generative AI tools (including however to usage them responsibly), portion the Cybersecurity Career Certificate focuses connected cybersecurity investigation and protecting networks, devices, radical and data. We’re donating 70,000 Career Certificates scholarships to Centro de Integração Empresa-Escola (CIEE) to enactment young professionals from the Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities.

In addition, we’ve launched escaped online courses focused connected generative AI information investigation connected our Cloud Skills Boost program. Over the past twelvemonth and half, much than 45,000 radical successful Brazil person enrolled in akin programs, disposable escaped of complaint to assemblage and method schoolhouse students. And successful concern with Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (Senai), we’re processing a caller Google Cloud level that uses AI to analyse students' CVs and link them with imaginable nonrecreational opportunities.

Our section economical impact

We instrumentality pridefulness successful helping companies thrive: startups that accelerate successful our Google for Startups programs, developers who bring their games to the satellite done Google Play, companies that link with much consumers utilizing Google Ads, contented creators who springiness dependable to Brazilians connected YouTube, and overmuch more.

In 2023, we contributed much than 188 cardinal reais to the Brazilian system done our platforms, including Search, Google Ads, AdSense, YouTube, Google Cloud and Google Play. And done the taxation inducement law, we invested millions successful 21 societal projects crossed 19 states and 143 cities. One of them, from the Vaga Lume Association, volition physique libraries and bid mediators to promote speechmaking successful communities successful the Legal Amazon.

All of these announcements physique connected our committedness to make affirmative social, biology and economical interaction successful Brazil. And with the latest advancements successful AI, we’ll proceed innovating alongside the radical of Brazil — a state we’ve been fortunate to telephone location for astir 20 years.