Highlights from Las Vegas: Innovations that will inspire you!
Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas has shown once again: The future lies in artificial intelligence and a smart, secure infrastructure.
Here are the highlights that will help you work more efficiently and impress your customers:
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Google Distributed Cloud (GDC):
- Google Distributed Cloud helps businesses and government agencies leverage the best of Google's AI capabilities at their own sites and edge locations.
- Gemini on-premises: Google Distributed Cloud customers can now run Gemini on their own on-premises infrastructure. Customers can run Gemini models on NVIDIA DGX and HGX platforms, which they can purchase through Google Cloud or directly.
- Google Agent Space Search: Google Agentspace Search brings the Google quality of enterprise search on-premises, enabling employees to interact with data and automate business functions. Customers can get accurate and secure answers without compromising on data availability or latency.
- Cloud WAN:
- Connects all your infrastructures, applications and employees globally, with improved network performance and reduced total cost of ownership.
- Cloud WAN delivers up to 40% improved network performance while reducing total cost of ownership by up to 40%.
- This network, which operates at “Google speed” - with virtually no latency - for billions of users around the world, is now available to businesses everywhere. This backbone-as-a-service offering leverages Google's 25 years of networking experience to create a fully managed, high-performance global WAN. Cloud WAN provides high-performance connectivity between geographically dispersed data centers or connects branch offices and campus environments via our premium tier network.
AI MODEL INNOVATION
- Gemini 2.5 Pro & Gemini 2.5 Flash – The power models:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro is available in public preview on Vertex AI, AI Studio and in the Gemini app. Gemini 2.5 Pro is designed for maximum quality and to handle the most complex tasks that require deep logical thinking and programming skills. It is ranked #1 in the chatbot arena.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: - the low-latency and cost-effective thinking model - will soon be available in Vertex AI, AI Studio and the Gemini app.
- Imagen 3 – Image generation in a class of its own:
- Photorealism & text: Google's latest text-to-image model delivers stunningly realistic, detailed images and understands complex instructions (prompts) much better. Unique: It can now also integrate clear, readable text directly into the images - ideal for your marketing & design!
- Google's highest quality text-to-image model now has improved image generation and overpainting capabilities to reconstruct missing or damaged parts of an image.
- Chirp 2 – The universal mouthpiece:
- Understand & speak language: Google's state-of-the-art universal language model (Chirp 2) powers speech recognition and translation in many Google products. It supports more languages with higher accuracy and captures nuances better - for more natural, global communication.
- Google's audio generation and understanding model now includes Instant Custom Voice, a new way to create custom voices with just 10 seconds of audio input.
- VEO 2 – Hollywood in AI-format:
- Video at the touch of a button: VEO is Google's answer to AI video generation. It creates high-quality HD videos (1080p) from text, image or even video instructions. VEO understands cinematic concepts (e.g. “time-lapse”, “aerial shot”) and ensures consistent characters and scenes. This revolutionizes your content creation!
- Google's most advanced video creation model has new editing and camera control features that allow customers to precisely edit and reshape their video content.
- Lyria – Music & trust:
- Creativity meets security: Lyria is Google's advanced AI model for music generation. The industry's first enterprise-grade text-to-music model turns simple text prompts into 30-second music clips.
- Creativity meets security: Lyria is Google's advanced AI model for music generation. The industry's first enterprise-grade text-to-music model turns simple text prompts into 30-second music clips.
AI AGENTS & PLATFORMS
- Google Agentspace:
- Helps organizations put enterprise search and AI agents in the hands of employees; with new agents and features to help organizations adopt AI agents.
- Now with Google Experts agents such as Idea Generation Agent and Deep Research Agent; integration with NotebookLM and Chrome Enterprise
- Agent Gallery: to find the right agent for the task at hand.
- Agent Designer: code-free interface for custom agents
- Google Agentspace is Google's fastest growing enterprise offering with a powerful set of features.
DEVELOPER
- App Development mit KI-Boost:
- Smarter coding: Gemini is deeply integrated into the developer tools (e.g. Cloud Code, Cloud Workstations, Firebase). The AI helps with writing code, debugging, testing and provides contextual help. Developers become more productive and can focus on creative solutions. Keyword: Firebase Genkit for AI-supported backend development. (Hint: If you are a developer, you will be more productive!)
SECURITY
- Google Unified Security – Security from a single source:
- Google Unified Security is powered by Gemini and Google's threat intelligence data from protecting billions of users and responding to thousands of security incidents. With Gemini, security teams can detect more threats with ease, minimize workloads and take productivity to new levels. Google's threat intelligence helps organizations stay ahead of the latest threats, and Mandiant's expert help is there when you need it most.
- With a unified context from across the enterprise and Google's unique understanding of the threat landscape, Google Unified Security ushers in a new era of preventative security, helping organizations evolve beyond reactive security and stay ahead of the latest threats.
- Data Protection for AI – Strengthening trust in AI:
- Secure data, transparent AI: Google is extending protection for sensitive data in AI workloads. This includes confidential computing (data remains encrypted even during processing) and the SynthID watermark to make the origin of AI content traceable. Security and trust are the basis.
- Secure data, transparent AI: Google is extending protection for sensitive data in AI workloads. This includes confidential computing (data remains encrypted even during processing) and the SynthID watermark to make the origin of AI content traceable. Security and trust are the basis.
WORKSPACE
- Google Workspace Flows: Automates work with AI agents in the loop:
- With Google Workspace Flows, agent-based features from Gemini help you automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks and make decisions with more context.
- With Google Workspace Flows, agent-based features from Gemini help you automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks and make decisions with more context.
- "Help me analyze" in Google Sheets:
- Data analysis via chat: No more complicated formulas! You can now ask for analyses directly in Google Sheets using natural language. The AI (“Help me analyze”) automatically creates suitable diagrams, pivot tables and insights from the data. Data understanding becomes accessible to you.
- Data analysis via chat: No more complicated formulas! You can now ask for analyses directly in Google Sheets using natural language. The AI (“Help me analyze”) automatically creates suitable diagrams, pivot tables and insights from the data. Data understanding becomes accessible to you.
- Agentic AI meets Google Workspace – Der KI-Kollege:
- Productivity redefined: Gemini becomes a proactive assistant directly in Gmail, Docs, Sheets & Co. It summarizes long email threads, drafts replies, creates meeting summaries (even live!), generates documents or analyzes data in tables - all on demand or automatically. A real game changer for your everyday work!
