Mark Lazarus
Member since 2021
Gold League
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Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Earned Nov 19, 2025 EST
Generative AI for Healthcare
Earned Nov 19, 2025 EST
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Nov 17, 2025 EST
AI Infrastructure: Cloud TPUs
Earned Nov 17, 2025 EST
AI Infrastructure: Cloud GPUs
Earned Nov 14, 2025 EST
AI Infrastructure: Introduction to AI Hypercomputer
Earned Nov 11, 2025 EST
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: Project Notebooks
Earned Nov 11, 2025 EST
[Deprecated]AI Boost Bites: NotebookLM Video Overviews
Earned Nov 9, 2025 EST
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization
Earned Sep 1, 2025 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud
Earned Aug 31, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: Discover Sources in NotebookLM
Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work
Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: NotebookLM Mind Maps
Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: Intro to NotebookLM
Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Email Content Creation
Earned Aug 24, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Create Docs in Seconds
Earned Aug 23, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: AI Power-Ups for Google Workspace
Earned Aug 23, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Tame Your Inbox with AI
Earned Aug 22, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape
Earned Aug 22, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Gemini Slide Summaries
Earned Aug 22, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: No-Code Sheets & Scripts
Earned Aug 22, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Amplify Exec Voices with AI
Earned Aug 22, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Exec Summaries with Gemini Gems
Earned Aug 22, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Automate tasks with Gemini and Apps Script
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: "Eat the Frog" with NotebookLM
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Gemini Image-to-Sheets Hack
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Poke Holes in Your Strategy
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: NotebookLM for Competitive Edge
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Personalization with customized prompts
Earned Aug 20, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: TL;DR with Gemini in Docs & Drive
Earned Aug 19, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Prompting like a Pro with Google Workspace
Earned Aug 19, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Content Generation with Gemini Made Easy
Earned Aug 19, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] AI Boost Bites: Customer insights with NotebookLM
Earned Aug 19, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Gemini Gems – Your ultimate marketing sidekick
Earned Aug 19, 2025 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Earned Aug 19, 2025 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Aug 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot
Earned Aug 15, 2025 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PMLE
Earned Nov 11, 2024 EST
Vector Search and Embeddings
Earned Sep 15, 2024 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Sep 15, 2024 EDT
Google Security Operations - Deep Dive
Earned Sep 4, 2024 EDT
[Deprecated]Google Security Operations - Fundamentals
Earned Aug 31, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Jan 7, 2024 EST
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned Jan 5, 2024 EST
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Jan 5, 2024 EST
Attention Mechanism
Earned Jan 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Jan 4, 2024 EST
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned Jan 4, 2024 EST
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud
Earned Jan 4, 2024 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Dec 25, 2023 EST
[DEPRECATED]Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Dec 18, 2023 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Dec 18, 2023 EST
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Dec 18, 2023 EST
Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. This course explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Specifically designed for healthcare professionals, this course demystifies generative AI, the latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence, and the large language models (LLMs) that drive it. Discover real-world applications of generative AI in healthcare settings and master the art of crafting effective prompts tailored to your goals. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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Digital transformation is a critical journey for modern organizations, and establishing a strong baseline in cloud computing is the first step toward driving meaningful innovation. Digital Transformation with Google Cloud introduces the core technologies and strategic frameworks that help organizations modernize their operations. This course explores fundamental cloud concepts, global network infrastructure, and the shared responsibility model to help leaders navigate their path to the cloud with confidence.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Welcome to the Cloud TPUs course. We'll explore the advantages and disadvantages of TPUs in various scenarios and compare different TPU accelerators to help you choose the right fit. You'll learn strategies to maximize performance and efficiency for your AI models and understand the significance of GPU/TPU interoperability for flexible machine learning workflows. Through engaging content and practical demos, we'll guide you step-by-step in leveraging TPUs effectively.
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Curious about the powerful hardware behind AI? This module breaks down performance-optimized AI computers, showing you why they're so important. We'll explore how CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs make AI tasks super fast, what makes each one unique, and how AI software gets the most out of them. By the end, you'll know exactly how to pick the right GPU for your AI projects, helping you make smart choices for your AI workloads.
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Ready to get started with AI Hypercomputer? This course makes it easy! We'll cover the basics of what they are and how they help AI with AI workloads. You'll learn about the different components inside a hypercomputer, like GPUs, TPUs, and CPUs, and discover how to pick the right deployment approach for your needs.
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This video covers how to create a 'project notebook' in NotebookLM by adding all relevant sources to build a central, searchable knowledge hub for your team.
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This video covers how to use the Video Overviews feature in NotebookLM to automatically generate a short explainer video based on your source documents.
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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address a rapidly evolving landscape of security challenges. This course explores the foundations of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud’s secure-by-design infrastructure, and the defense-in-depth strategy, while highlighting how AI-driven operations and compliance tools help organizations meet strict global regulatory requirements.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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This video covers how to use the 'Discover Sources' feature in NotebookLM to find and import relevant web-based sources directly into your research project.
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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and Gemini Notebook. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.
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This video covers how to use the Mind Maps feature in NotebookLM to automatically create a visual representation of your sources, helping you understand connections and key concepts.
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This video covers how to use NotebookLM as a personal research
assistant by adding sources, asking questions, and generating new content
formats based on your documents.
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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and apps that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems and investing in new products and services. This course explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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This video covers how to use Gemini in Gmail to draft new emails,
refine their tone, respond with context from Drive files, and use smart
reply suggestions.
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This video covers how to use the 'Help me create' feature in Google Docs to generate a complete, formatted document by referencing content from other files in your Drive.
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This video covers five key ways to use Google's AI tools, including Gemini in Workspace, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM, to enhance your daily productivity.
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This video covers how to use Gemini in Gmail to summarize emails, find information, and draft replies, helping you manage your inbox more efficiently.
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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.
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This video covers how to use Gemini in Slides to automatically generate
meeting recaps and draft follow-up emails, which can streamline your
post-meeting workflow and save you time.
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This video covers how you can leverage Gemini's advanced AI capabilities within Google Sheets to effortlessly pull data and generate insights in minutes, all without the need for any technical or coding background.
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This video will cover how to leverage Gemini Gems to create authentic
social media posts in your leader's unique voice. Learn to overcome the
challenge of scaling executive social presence by training a Gem with
writing samples and clear instructions. Discover how to generate engaging
posts quickly, saving time while amplifying thought leadership and
ensuring authenticity.
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This video covers how you can create your own Brevity Gem to summarize and transform messy notes or long documents into clear, concise, executive-ready summaries.
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This video covers how to use Gemini and Apps Script to automate manual tasks across Google Workspace. You'll learn to prompt Gemini to generate Apps Script code that automatically drafts email reminders in Google Sheets for tasks not marked 'Complete.' Automate your workflow with little to no technical expertise, freeing up time for more important work and eliminating manual follow-ups.
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This video covers how you can leverage Notebook LM to "eat the frog" on your to-do list by automating complex tasks like summarizing legislation and mapping services, saving you hours of work.
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This video covers how to eliminate tedious manual data entry using Gemini. Learn how to take a picture or screenshot of data (from PDFs, paper, or images) and prompt Gemini to instantly convert it into a structured Google Sheet. Discover this simple hack to save countless hours transcribing data, turning Gemini into your personal data entry assistant. Just snap, prompt, and export!
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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.
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This video covers using AI to identify weaknesses and hidden assumptions in your strategy. You'll learn the "Poke Holes" method, a simple way to pressure-test your plans with AI prompts, uncovering gaps and strengthening your strategic thinking.
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This video will cover how to use NotebookLM to gather and analyze
publicly available information, combine it with internal documents, and
extract key competitive insights.
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This video covers how to personalize your Gemini results in Google
Workspace. Learn to incorporate documents and research papers directly
into your prompts using the "@" symbol to get more targeted and relevant
AI output tailored to your needs.
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This video covers how you can use Gemini to summarize long documents in Google Workspace, so you can quickly get the information you need and save time. You'll learn how to use Gemini to summarize entire documents or just selected text, as well as how to use Gemini in Drive to summarize across multiple files.
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This video covers prompt engineering fundamentals for effective AI communication. Learn a simple framework (Persona, Task, Context, Format) to craft clear prompts, getting better, faster results from Gemini in Google Workspace. Discover how to use natural language, be specific, and iterate for optimal AI assistance.
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This video will cover how you can leverage Gemini's advanced AI capabilities in Google Docs to brainstorm ideas, draft various marketing content, and collaborate with your team.
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This video covers how NotebookLM can revolutionize customer insight gathering from call or chat transcripts. You'll learn to upload PDF transcripts of hundreds of conversations (even multilingual ones!) and quickly extract key themes, trending topics, and actionable insights without listening for hours. Discover how to save findings, share notebooks, and even generate interactive podcast summaries of your data.
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This video covers how to create your own Gemini Gems, advanced AI capabilities that can automate repetitive tasks and supercharge your productivity.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Cloud technology is a powerful asset, and when paired with data, it becomes a catalyst for innovation and enhanced customer experiences. Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud examines how organizations can leverage the cloud to make their data more accessible, actionable, and valuable.
As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE) certification exam. You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook, and use the study guide to practice for a certification exam.
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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.
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Take these next steps to learn more about the Google Security Operations Platform. Build on fundamental knowledge to go deeper on customization and tuning.
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This course covers the baseline skills needed for the Google Security Operations Platform. The modules will cover specific actions and features that security engineers should become familiar with to start using the toolset.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you.
In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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