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. 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. In addition, Google is now opening up the Firebase extension marketplace to more developers.
Jeanine Banks, the lead for Google’s Developer Product group, told me that the company is focused on reducing complexity for developers. “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. So it’s critical that we make it as easy as possible to bu...
