The landscape of AI and compute-intensive applications underwent a significant transformation with Google Cloud's latest innovation. On August 21, 2024, Google Cloud launched the public preview of Cloud Run with GPUs, a feature that integrated the power of NVIDIA L4 GPUs into the serverless Cloud Run platform.

This new offering is more than just an incremental upgrade—it represented a major advance in how developers could harness the power of AI inference and handle resource-intensive tasks with greater efficiency on Google Cloud.