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Announcing Spanner Omni: Your infrastructure, Google’s innovation

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to run Spanner in their own data centers, across clouds, or on a laptop…

Cross-cloud infrastructure innovation for the agentic enterprise

The era of agentic AI is accelerating from human- to machine-speed operations, while also creating profound stress on legacy technology infrastructure. This new reality pushes foundational systems to their limits: agents generate thousands of internal messages and complex queries, spawning…

Inside the eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

At Google, our TPU design philosophy has always been centered on three pillars: scalability, reliability, and efficiency. As AI models evolve from dense large language models (LLMs) to massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) and reasoning-heavy architectures, the hardware must do more than…

What’s new with Databases: Powering the agentic future

In the agentic era, the role of enterprise data is shifting from a passive resource to a dynamic System of Action. That’s why we announced the Agentic Data Cloud — a unified architecture that integrates models, analytics, and operational databases…

What’s new in the Agentic Data Cloud: Powering the System of Action

Companies are shifting from gen AI that simply answers questions to autonomous agents that perceive, reason, and act on their behalf. Attempting to scale these agents on legacy stacks exposes structural failures that can lead to fractured governance, a persistent…

Welcome to the agentic BI era with Looker

By combining the analytical depth of Looker with Google’s Agentic Data Cloud, the potential to transform how we model, interact with, and act on our data appears limitless. This week at Google Cloud Next, we are thrilled to share how…

Startups are building the next big thing with Google Cloud AI

The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastructure purpose-built for the most demanding workloads, intelligent…