![]() The addition of Python as a supported language in Cloud Functions, too, is somewhat related to this AI play. They’ll use more cloud, more Play Services, they’ll use more payment services.” That’s also how Google plans to (indirectly) monetize this service - not through revenue of profit sharing arrangement but by simply getting more developers into the larger ecosystem of Google services. “We think by enabling them to that, they will succeed, their applications will succeed - and as their applications succeed, they will likely scale up. “Our main focus with Firebase extensions is to accelerate developers’ creativity and being able to build their applications,” she explained. Now, it is opening up this project to more providers so they can onboard themselves, Banks told me. Until last year, Google was working directly with the extension providers that wanted to offer their APIs in the marketplace. Among the new extensions here are image generators, tools for building chatbots on top of the PaLM API and a text summarizer, among others. The service is generally available now and given Google’s focus on all things AI right now, it’s no surprise that the Firebase team - and the developers who use the platform - are jumping on this bandwagon, too. Google introduced Firebase extensions, which are pre-packaged solutions for app developers, back in 2019. ![]() How can they take advantage of these things to build great apps and experiences?” It’s more for developers to think about and in particular, not just those developers that are deep into AI and machine learning, but the everyday engineer. “Of course, with AI and generative AI, that just ups the stakes again. So it’s critical that we make it as easy as possible to build great things,” she said. “With so many different technologies - especially now that you want to build for multiple devices, you want to build across multiple platforms - certainly we’re not short on tools to help developers do that. Jeanine Banks, the lead for Google’s Developer Product group, told me that the company is focused on reducing complexity for developers. In addition, Google is now opening up the Firebase extension marketplace to more developers. ![]() That’s in addition to support for the Python language in Cloud Functions for Firebase (2nd gen), updates to the Cloud Firestore database service and more. Firebase, Google’s backend-as-a-service platform for application developers, is getting its fair share of new features at the company’s I/O developer conference today, but the marquee update is the addition of AI extensions, powered by Google’s PaLM API.
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