Generative AI updates for Google Maps Platform and Google Earth

Today, we're introducing new generative AI capabilities for Google Maps Platform and Google Earth to provide developers and urban planners with fresh, real-world information and to help solve geospatial problems.

More than 10 million websites and apps use Google Maps Platform to offer helpful products, from delivery apps to real estate websites. As more developers build generative AI applications, we often hear that they want an easy way to show up-to-date information in their products. Today we're introducing grounding with Google Maps, a new capability that allows developers to use our rich place data to build generative AI-powered experiences. Grounding with Google Maps helps make answers generated by LLMs more factual and fresh, quickly reflecting updates from the 250 million places in Maps.