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Moving quickly on – Pichai outlines the success of Gemini 2.5 Pro, which he says is streaking ahead of the competition.
He shows off a couple of examples of why Gemini 2.5 is a “significant leap” over its rivals, including simualting a Rubiks cube – but also a massive simulation of the Earth’s magentic field, showing off the huge potential of the model.
Pichai reveals Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for everyone in AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app.
That’s not all – Pichai unveils Ironwood, the company’s next-generation TPU.
The seventh-gen hardware will help power the next generation of AI computing, allowing for more analysis and inference like never before.
Pichai adds that Alphabet is ramping up investment in AI infrastructure – and reveals the first news of the day – Google is making its Cloud Wide Area Network open to businesses across the globe.
Our first special guest – Sundar Pichai, CEO of parent company Alphabet.
He talks us through the Sphere/Wizard of Oz collaboration we saw last night, as an example of what technology can do to show what is possible.
“With Google Cloud, we see AI as the most important way we can help advance your mission – the opportunity with AI is as big as it gets,” he notes.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian takes to the stage.
“The future is being built by all of us,” he notes, saying Google Cloud has shipped over 3,000 improvements and updates in the past year alone.
“Google’s AI momentum is exciting,” he adds, outlining huge adavnces in adoption of Gemini, Imagen, Veo and the company’s other AI tools.
Here we go – the lights go down and it’s time for an intro video, again showing some…interesting visuals generated by Veo 2.
Brass instruments floating over the Las Vegas strip and the Grand Canyon? It’s amazing what AI can do…
We’re in and seated! As per Vegas conference rules, we’re being blasted with upbeat techno – accompanied with strange and fantastic animated scenes generated by Google’s Veo2 model…
We’re en route to the keynote now – as you might expect, it’s pretty busy…
Good morning and welcome to the first day of Google Cloud Next!
After last night’s magical Sphere experience, we’re not sure how Google could possibly top that – but if anyone can, they can – and we are in Vegas after all…
We’re off for breakfast and caffeine, before the keynote starts at 9am PST.
Kurian then took to the stage solo to welcome us to Google Cloud Next 25.
That should be that for today – but tune in tomorrow for the first official day of the conference, with press Q&As and keynotes to come!
The event then wrapped up with a discussion between Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Jim Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment Co, covering how the partnership came about, and their hopes for AI in the future.
Make no mistake – seeing a 75-year-old film, originally filmed in a rectangular format, expanded and spread across the screen, is pretty spectacular…
The event was introduced by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who welcomed us to the show, and outlined the scale of the technology being used.
Well, that was interesting – we were whisked off to the famous Las Vegas Sphere, for a look at how Google Cloud worked to help prepare the movie classic The Wizard of Oz for the venue, launching on August 28.
It’s fair to say it will be a spectacular show, with the original movie expanded, using AI content generation, to spread across the 16K LED screen at the Sphere.
Before the conference kicks off tomorrow, we’ve been invited for a VIP press conference at an undisclosed location in Las Vegas…
Will we be allowed to report on it? What will it be about? Is this just a big AI prank? Stay tuned…
Good morning from sunny Las Vegas! We’re here for Google Cloud Next, and after a slighted delayed arrival into the city last night, are busy getting ready for the event kicking off tomorrow.
If you’d like a reminder of everything announced at last year’s event, you can revisit our live blog here.
Refresh 2025-04-09T16:11:39.015Z Moving quickly on – Pichai outlines the success of Gemini 2.5 Pro, which he says is streaking ahead of the competition. He shows off a couple of examples of why Gemini 2.5 is a “significant leap” over its rivals, including simualting a Rubiks cube – but also a…
