Google Cloud Next 2025 took place April 9–11 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The event showcased Google’s significant advancements in AI, cloud computing, and security.
Key announcements included the unveiling of Ironwood, Google’s 7th-generation TPU capable of 42.5 exaflops, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, now broadly available in AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google introduced Agentspace and the Agent Development Kit to streamline the creation of AI-driven multi-agent systems.
Google’s Investments in AI and Infrastructure
- Google is investing in AI technology and has made significant advancements, including developing Gemini, a powerful AI model, and expanding Google Cloud to 42 regions.
- The company is also investing in its infrastructure, including a $75 billion investment in 2025, to support its AI and cloud business. It announced the availability of its global private network, Cloud WAN, to enterprises.
- Google has made significant progress in AI research and development, including introducing Gemini 2.5, a thinking model that can reason through its thoughts before responding, and Veo, an advanced video generation model.
McDonald’s Transformation with Google Cloud
- McDonald’s is transforming its restaurant experience with the help of Google Cloud, leveraging Edge Computing and AI-powered assistants to improve stability, security, and performance.
Google Cloud’s AI Platform and Infrastructure
- Google Cloud offers an AI-optimized platform with leading price, performance, and precision, a robust developer platform, and a comprehensive portfolio of purpose-built agents.
- Google Cloud’s advanced infrastructure core layer is powering its AI offerings, including introducing seventh-generation TPUs, Ironwood, which delivers 42.5 exaflops of compute per pod.
Gemini’s Integration and New Innovations
- Gemini provides best-in-class AI for many companies, including close partners Box and Palo Alto Networks, and it is integrated across Google’s products, such as Google Workspace.
- Three innovations with Gemini in Workspace have been announced: Help Me analyze in Google Sheets, Audio overviews in Google Docs, and Google Workspace Flows to automate repetitive tasks.
Advancements in AI Models and Vertex AI
- Google has made considerable improvements to its AI models, including Imagen, Chirp, Lyria, and Veo, available on Vertex AI, and can generate high-quality images, videos, and music.
- Companies like Nokia, Wayfair, and AES use Vertex AI and Gemini to speed up app development, update product attributes, and reduce audit costs, with notable results such as a 99% reduction in audit costs for AES.
- Honeywell has incorporated Gemini into their product development. With Google Cloud, they designed a new way to manage product lifecycles, which is estimated to help their engineers deliver results up to 70% faster.
- Vertex AI provides easy access to over 200 curated foundation models, and new features include tuning methods to optimize model performance and the general availability of Meta’s Llama 4 on Vertex AI.
Agentspace and Enterprise Deep Research
- Agentspace has identified a cash flow problem with Acme General Contracting. It provides a deep dive into general contracting industry trends, including research on rising material costs, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory complexities.
- Agentspace is integrated with Google’s enterprise deep research agent, which pulls real-time information from Google Search and internal enterprise data to build a report and provides a succinct executive summary.
- Agentspace is a hyperscaler platform that can connect to third-party data and tools, offers interoperability with third-party agents and models, and provides stringent access controls at the employee level.
Vertex AI Search and Customer Engagement
- Customer agents built with Vertex AI Search are helping customers quickly find answers and the right products, and companies like Reddit, Lowe’s, and Mercado Libre are using Vertex AI Search to revolutionize product discovery and customer service.
- Google Cloud’s Customer Engagement Suite is transforming customer service by providing out-of-the-box functionality to build agents and working across web, mobile, call center, and other channels, with companies like DBS, Loveholidays, and Verizon achieving significant reductions in customer call handling times and costs.
Next-Generation Cloud and Customer Engagement Suite
- The new way to use the cloud includes human-like voices, comprehension, the ability to understand emotions, streaming video support, and AI assistance to build custom agents.
- A demo of the next-generation Customer Engagement Suite is showcased, featuring a virtual agent that can interpret and respond to customer inquiries and integrate with data sources, CRM systems, and popular business messaging platforms.
Creative Agents and Industry Applications
- Creative agents are being used to superpower creative teams, including those in media production, marketing, advertising, design, and more, with examples such as the enrichment of the Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere, and partnerships with companies like Adobe, WPP, and Monks Flow.
- Mattel uses Google Cloud’s Gemini to synthesize millions of points of consumer feedback, delivering insights and opportunities to deepen their relationship with fans.
BigQuery and Data Activation for AI
- BigQuery has five times more customers than the two leading independent data cloud companies, and it can activate all data for AI, combining structured and unstructured data.
- Specialized agents are being announced for every data team member, including data engineering teams, data science teams, and data analysts, to accelerate workflows and perform robust analysis.
Google’s Cyber Defense Capabilities and Unified Security
- Google offers critical cyber defense capabilities, including threat intelligence, a comprehensive security operations platform, cloud security, and risk management, to help organizations protect themselves from cyber threats.
- The company is introducing Google Unified Security, a converged security solution that combines unmatched visibility, faster threat detection, AI-powered security operations, and continuous virtual red teaming to drive better outcomes.
- Google Unified Security has been demonstrated to detect and respond to potential security threats in real-time, such as data leaks and malicious traffic. It can be used to protect applications and data across multiple environments.
Summary
Google Cloud Next 2025 showcased AI, cloud infrastructure, and security breakthroughs. Key highlights included the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Ironwood TPUs, and AI agents for enterprise automation. Google emphasized sustainability, global expansion, and democratizing AI, creating transformative solutions across industries and enhanced user experiences.
