Google Cloud Next 2026: all the live details from Google Cloud’s biggest annual event
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While that’s it for the live keynotes, we’re still on the ground jumping between breakouts and speaking to Google execs for all the latest details on this year’s long list of announcements.
Next up, we’re heading to a breakout to hear what’s new with Gemini, from Google DeepMind
Additionally, Rapid Enterprise Migration, in Preview, is now up to 5x faster to move an entire organization from M365 thanks to big work on interoperability
Yulie Kwon is on stage now to announce the general availability of Workspace Intelligence – deeper context for information gathering with situational awareness and personalization. It turns fragmented information into a clear path forward, she adds.
In a quick demo on stage, we see Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience handle complex workflows with product queries and even language changes. For the consumer it means that conversational AI can be used via phone support, with the AI agent having access to all the necessary resources behind the scenes.
Just weeks after we learned that Google Cloud completed its acquisition of Wiz, we’re now getting an insight into what this acquisition means for Google Cloud.
Sticking on the data side, Google is launching the Cross-Cloud Lakehouse that’s “completely borderless”
Chief Product and Business Officer Karthik Narain is here for the next launches, kicking off with the Knowledge Catalog, Smart Storage for agent-ready data with instant tagging and zero manual data engineering, and Deep Research Agent
Of course, we’ve got the fuller details for Google’s two new TPUs coming later on
As for TPU 8i, there’s now support for up to 1,152 TPUs per pod via Boardfly Topology. We’ve broken down the “memory wall”, Google says
TPU 8t promises 3x performance per pod, support for up to 9,600 TPUs via 3D torus topology, 2 PB of shared bandwidth memory (enough to hold the entire digital collection f the Library of Congress 100x over)
Next up, TPU 8t and TPU 8i are being announced
For another live demo, 3x Olympic Gold Medallist and snowboarder Shaun White is showing us how Google Cloud and Gemini can analyze the details of a video for detailed analytics.
Oh, and of course, the convention center filled with “snow” for White’s entry.
“The era of the pilot is over, the era of the agent is here,” Kurian declares as he welcomes colleague Erica Chuong for a demo.
Projects in Gemini Enterprise, coming soon, serves as a shared workspace for teams and agents
Name drops are continuing as Thomas Kurian reminds us that Google Cloud partnered with NASA/Artemis II on flight readiness with agentic AI
And name drop… Google Cloud is reminding us about the landmark Apple partnership, which will drive this year’s much-improved Siri
We’re also hearing about Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), Veo 3.1 Lite and Lyria 3 Pro
The focus of today’s keynote and this year’s announcements will be Google Cloud’s new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, described as an “end-to-end system for the agent era”
Around 75% of all new Google code is AI-generated, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says in a pre-recorded video. Around a year ago, we reported that AI was accounting for around 25% of Google’s new code (and a third for Microsoft).
“How do you move AI into production cross your entire enterprise?” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian asks as he welcomes the audience.
Spoiler alert, he’s already given us the answer – it’s a unified stack. That’s what we’ll be hearing about over the next two days.
In true tech conference style, a live DJ set is warming the audience up ahead of today’s announcements
Good morning from Google Cloud Next. The first keynote kicks off at 9am PT, so join us in a little over an hour for all the details as they roll out.
The venue is filling up with around 32,000 attendees as Google Cloud gets ready hold its biggest event of the year, packed with new product announcements and more.
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