{"id":1004418,"date":"2026-04-23T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004418"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:37:17","slug":"merck-to-partner-with-google-cloud-on-ai-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/merck-to-partner-with-google-cloud-on-ai-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck to partner with Google Cloud on AI initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drugmaker Merck &amp; Co said on Wednesday it will partner with Google Cloud to build up its artificial intelligence capabilities, investing as much as $1 billion with Google over a number of years to fund AI infrastructure, engineers and licensing of the tech company&#8217;s Gemini Enterprise platform. <\/p>\n<p>The partnership, announced at Google&#8217;s Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, builds on work already \u200cunderway between the \u2060companies \u2060and includes Google Cloud engineers working alongside Merck teams, executives from both companies said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugmaker Merck &amp; Co said on Wednesday it will partner with Google Cloud to build up its artificial intelligence capabilities, investing as much as $1 billion with Google over a number of years to fund AI infrastructure, engineers and licensing of the tech company&#8217;s Gemini Enterprise platform. The partnership, announced at Google&#8217;s Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, builds on work already \u200cunderway between the \u2060companies \u2060and includes Google Cloud engineers working alongside Merck teams, executives from both companies said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}