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Cubo Ai · Google Cloud

Vendor-reportedOtherTaiwanScaledStartupComputer visionLive 2019

Vendor-reported. The customer is named and the numbers are quoted from the source page, but the account comes from the vendor. No independent confirmation.

Reported by google.com (vendor self-report). Checked against the source page on 2026-09-05. 7 of 7 figures below appear on that page word for word.

The problem

To ensure babies' safety when asleep and provide real-time alerts to parents, while also scaling to accommodate a growing user base and managing rising cloud expenditure.

What was deployed

Vendor
Google Cloud
Products
Google Cloud, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud GPUs, Cloud Logging, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud IoT Core, Firebase, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Technique
Computer vision
Build or buy
Bought and customised
Deployment
Hybrid
Data used
device status data, images, user data
Scale
70,000 daily active users across 114 countries as of July 2021

What changed

Each row is quoted from the source. Figures we could not find on the page in those words are marked — they are kept, not deleted, so you can judge them.

more than 10Xuser growth supported with same IT workforce

“Supports more than 10X user growth with the same IT workforce through highly scalable Cloud Functions”

Quoted word for word from the source

Zerodowntimetwo years

“Zero downtime in two years of deployment”

Quoted word for word from the source

operational costs (GPU selection)

“reducing operational costs by 5%”

Quoted word for word from the source · round percentage, no baseline given

unit cost of containers

“Cubo Ai was able to reduce the unit cost of the containers it deploys by 20%.”

Quoted word for word from the source · round percentage, no baseline given

less than one weekdevelopment timefrom several weeks

“shortening the development time from several weeks to less than one week.”

Quoted word for word from the source

reduced by at least one secondresponse time for alerts

“This helps reduce the response time by at least one second”

Quoted word for word from the source

up to 92%AI detection accuracy

“with an accuracy rate of up to 92%”

Quoted word for word from the source

“As an existing Google Cloud customer, we appreciate how intuitive and flexible the platform is and knew that it would be a right fit for us as we continue to grow as a company. Furthermore, the support that came with it was unrivalled.”
— Steven Shen, CTO, Cubo Ai

Difficulties and limits

Sources

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