Thomas Kurian

At Google Cloud Next in April, we introduced two new specialized TPUs, 8t for large-scale training and 8i for real-time reasoning. Today, we’re expanding our TPU portfolio with two additional systems: TPU 8tx for secure and confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for addressing massive context windows. The pace of AI adoption combined with the unique requirements of agentic AI necessitates more specialization for our customers, which is why we have unveiled four new systems in just one year.

Google Cloud is built on a foundation of openness and choice, and today, we are expanding on that by bringing @OpenAI models into Google Cloud’s model garden.

Giving customers the flexibility to run agentic workloads across their choice of models and infrastructure helps them achieve the right balance of cost, capability, and performance.

Read more here: cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Today at the Google Cloud Public Sector Summit, we announced Gemini for government services, a purpose-built industry solution built around five core architectural components:
✔️Skills for Government Work: Reusable instructions and context, written by domain experts, that teach Gemini to run specific tasks while directly applying governing statutes and agency standard operating procedures.
✔️Open Access to Systems: Secure connectors link Gemini directly to core agency databases and applications—including @salesforce, @Oracle, and @ServiceNow—as well as authoritative federal sources like the Federal Register and eCFR.
✔️Partner Agent Integrations: Built-in capabilities from public sector software providers that agencies can deploy right away to handle complex operations like public records discovery and batch redaction under a central control plane.
✔️Governed Control Plane: A single, secure environment for compliance teams to set and enforce strict policies using VPC Service Controls, CMEK, and Assured Workloads.
✔️Model Choice Flexibility: It orchestrates across multiple models to deliver optimal quality and lower agency costs—routing high-volume document parsing and routine records sweeps to fast, low-cost models, while reserving high-reasoning models for complex policy analysis.

Today, @googlecloud and @Cognizant announced the new Gemini Enterprise Frontier Capability Group, bringing 18,000 certified associates to help customers go from pilot to production.

At Gemini at Work, we showed how the world’s leading organizations are moving past experimentation to deliver real business value with Google Cloud technology. Today, nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise.

Here are three customers we highlighted:
- @Merck is securely exploring new frontiers in molecular research with the potential to significantly compress discovery timelines, securely: youtu.be/Ay5QtMsna8c
- @honeywell is leveraging Gemini Enterprise to contextualize equipment operational data at scale, to provide proactive maintenance recommendations that help customers minimize costly outages and extend equipment lifespan: youtu.be/9SK_FpcIbvE
- @LloydsBank is scaling agentic tools securely across the bank and engineers are already building production-ready use cases from fraud detection to commercial client onboarding: youtu.be/ZoZlcmQG8SE