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Another seat at the AI table
Larridin, the company that wants to measure how much AI your employees are actually using, says its products are now live on Google Cloud Marketplace. Translation: if the AI gold rush is turning into an enterprise budgeting headache, Google Cloud just picked up another shovel.
Why this matters
The pitch here isn’t a flashy model release or a moonshot demo. It’s more practical — and in some ways more valuable. Larridin’s tools help companies track AI usage, spend, and investments across the whole organization, not just one department that got a shiny pilot project.
For Google, the win is straightforward:
- another enterprise product on its marketplace
- another reason for companies to keep their AI workloads inside the Google ecosystem
- another incremental sign that AI tooling is becoming a platform business, not just a chatbot contest
The investor angle
This isn’t the kind of announcement that moves Alphabet 10% in an afternoon. But it does add to the growing pile of evidence that Google Cloud wants to be the place businesses shop for AI plumbing, not just AI bragging rights.
Big picture: in AI, the winners may not just be the companies building the flashy models. They may be the ones making it easiest for enterprises to buy, measure, and manage the whole circus.