Google Cloud Next 2025 Upholds Google’s Commitment to AI Innovation

At Google Cloud Next ‘25—Google’s biggest event of the year—Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, affirmed Google’s massive impact on AI in 2024.

“Just one year ago, we shared a vision for how AI can fundamentally transform organizations. Today, that vision is not just a possibility—it's the vibrant reality we are collectively building,” said Kurian.

With the company’s successful momentum in 2024—having delivered over 3,000 product advancements across Google Cloud and Workspace—this year’s Google Cloud Next is unveiling Google’s wide array of AI innovation, from the most powerful chip the company’s ever built to helping facilitate agentic AI creation and management. As AI continues to transform the world we live in, Google aims to be at the forefront of that business transformation and impact.

In keeping with its commitment to innovation, Google unveiled Ironwood, the company’s 7th-generation TPU built for inference that offers five times more peak compute capacity and six times the high-bandwidth memory capacity. Engineered specifically to address AI’s massive computational and communication requirements, Ironwood minimizes data movement and latency on chip while executing massive tensor manipulations.

“Ironwood is our most powerful, capable, and energy efficient TPU yet, designed to power thinking, inferential AI models at scale,” said Amin Vahdat, VP/GM, ML, systems and cloud AI at Google. “Ironwood represents a significant shift in the development of AI and the infrastructure that powers its progress. It’s a move from responsive AI models that provide real-time information for people to interpret, to models that provide the proactive generation of insights and interpretation. This is what we call the ‘age of inference,’ where AI agents will proactively retrieve and generate data to collaboratively deliver insights and answers, not just data.”

Google Cloud Next also featured a variety of updates centered around expanding its platform’s AI capabilities. For example, with the addition of Lyria to Vertex AI, Google is now the only platform with generative media models for video, image, speech, and music, according to the company. Updates to Gemini in Workspace bring more AI utility into the tools that people rely on every day, such as Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat, and more.

With 2025 anticipated to be the year of agentic AI, Google has made several strides in the space, having announced that updates to Agentspace make it easier for customers to discover, create, and adopt AI agents. The Google Cloud Marketplace is also seeing the addition of the AI Agent Marketplace, a dedicated section where customers can browse and purchase AI agents from Google partners.

Google also debuted its Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open source framework that empowers agent creation without sacrificing control over agent behavior. With Agent2Agent (A2A), a new open protocol, agents are afforded a common language to drive collaboration, regardless of the framework or vendor they were built on.

Google also made a splash in quantum computing, unveiling its newest quantum chip—dubbed Willow—which overcame a core, long-standing challenge in quantum error correction. Willow can reduce errors exponentially as scale increases, paving “the way for a useful, large-scale quantum computer down the road,” according to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.

Building off the company’s recent announcement of Gemini 2.5—Google’s most intelligent AI model—Google debuted Gemini 2.5 Flash, its most cost-efficient thinking model.

“With 2.5 Flash, you can control how much the model reasons, and balance performance with your budget,” said Pichai.

Foundationally, Google Cloud Next emphasizes how “getting these advancements into the hands of both consumers and enterprises is something we’re really focused on,” Pichai continued. “This is why we are able to innovate at the cutting edge, and push the boundaries of what’s possible, for us—and for you. The result: better, faster, and more innovation for everyone.”

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