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GCP – Bringing Gemini and Google Agentspace to you on-premises
Today we are announcing that Gemini will be available on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), bringing Google’s most capable models to on-premises environments, with public preview starting in Q3 2025. To do so, we’ve partnered with NVIDIA to bring our Gemini models to NVIDIA Blackwell systems that you can purchase through Google or your preferred channels. […]

GCP – Announcing Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, an enterprise-ready document database
Today at Google Cloud Next, we’re thrilled to announce Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, built from the ground up by Google Cloud. It provides developers with an additional choice for their demanding document database workloads. MongoDB compatibility has been a highly-requested capability from Firestore’s existing community of over 600,000 active developers. With this launch, Firestore developers […]

GCP – Gemini 2.5 brings enhanced reasoning to enterprise use cases
We recently announced Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent AI model yet. Gemini 2.5 models are now thinking models, capable of reasoning before responding, resulting in dramatically improved performance. This transparent step-by-step reasoning is crucial for enterprise trust and compliance. Our first model in this family, Gemini 2.5 Pro, available in public preview on Vertex AI, […]

GCP – Building the industry’s best agentic AI ecosystem with partners
Since the beginning, partners have been core to Google Cloud — and that’s been especially true in the AI era. I’m amazed at the ways they have helped bring both Google’s AI innovations and their own incredible AI products and services to customers. Partners have already built more than 1,000 AI agent use cases for […]

GCP – Global startups are building the future of AI on Google Cloud
The most exciting startups in the world are in Las Vegas this week, as Google Cloud Next kicks off with a major focus on how AI and cloud are powering the next great wave of innovation. Our AI-optimized infrastructure, our broad AI model offerings, and our deep relationships with founders around the globe have put […]

GCP – Vertex AI is now the only platform with generative media models across video, image, speech, and music
Today, we’re continuing to invest in generative media by adding Lyria, Google’s text-to-music model, to Vertex AI in preview with allowlist. With the addition of music, Vertex AI is now the only platform with generative media models across all modalities – video, image, speech, and music. This means you can build a complete, production ready […]

GCP – Introducing Firebase Studio and agentic developer tools to build with Gemini
Millions of developers use Firebase to engage their users, powering over 70 billion instances of apps every day, everywhere — from mobile devices and web browsers, to embedded platforms and agentic experiences. But full-stack development is evolving quickly, and the rise of generative AI has transformed not only how apps are built, but also what […]

GCP – What’s new for Data Analytics in the AI driven, autonomous and agentic era
Today’s fast-paced environment demands more than just data access; it requires a real-time data activation flywheel. A new reality is emerging where AI, infused directly into the data landscape, works hand-in-hand with intelligent agents. These agents act as catalysts, unlocking insights for everyone, and enabling the autonomous, real-time action that’s critical for success. Google’s Data […]

GCP – Vertex AI offers new ways to build and manage multi-agent systems
Every enterprise will soon rely on multi-agent systems – multiple AI agents working together – even when built on different frameworks or providers. Agents are intelligent systems that can act on your behalf using reasoning, planning, and memory capabilities. Under your supervision, they can think multiple steps ahead and accomplish tasks across various systems. Multi-agent […]
GCP – 34 gen AI success stories with customers and ISVs
Like many of you reading this, I fancy myself a builder. I got my first taste of making a computer do something based on code I wrote into a TI-99 console when I was 8 years old and was hooked. In the four decades that have followed, I’ve seen hundreds, maybe even thousands of developers […]