Google Cloud Next ’25: New AI chips and agent ecosystem challenge Microsoft and Amazon
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Summary
Google has announced a spectrum of new technologies at its Cloud Next conference in a bid to boost its position in the AI sector.
These include “thinking models”, an expanded global network, and specialised infrastructure for large-scale AI deployments, including its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Ironwood.
Google said its new chip delivers over 42 exaflops of computing power per pod, a 24-fold increase on the world’s fastest supercomputer.
The company said it has seen considerable momentum in its cloud business, with Q4 2044 cloud revenue hitting $12bn, a 30% year-on-year increase.
It said active users of AI Studio and the Gemini API had risen by 80% in the past month.