Google Cloud Next '25 Opening Keynote in 10 minutes

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Google Cloud Next. Just one year ago, we stood here and talked about the future of AI for organizations. Today, that future is being built by all of us. In 2024, we shipped more than 3,000 product advances across Google Cloud and Workspace. Google's AI momentum is exciting. We're seeing more than 4 million developers using Gemini, a 20 times increase in Vertex AI usage last year, and over 2 billion AI assists monthly to business users right within Google Workspace. Here at Next, we'll be sharing over 500 customer stories, showcasing real business innovation. Let's hear more from a special guest. A warm welcome for the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai.

With Google Cloud, we see AI as the most important way we can help advance your mission. Today, I'm pleased to announce that we are making Google's global private network available to enterprises around the world. Cloud WAN leverages Google's planet scale network. Today, I'm proud to announce our seventh generation TPU, Ironwood, is coming later this year. It's the most powerful chip we have ever built and will enable the next frontier of AI models. Compared to our first publicly available TPU, Ironwood achieves 3,600 times better performance. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for everyone in AI Studio, Vertex AI, and in the Gemini app. I'm also excited to announce Gemini 2.5 Flash, our low latency and most cost efficient model, with thinking built in. With 2.5 Flash, you can control how much the model reasons and balance performance with your budget.

Customers around the world are choosing to work with Google for three important reasons. First, Google Cloud offers an AI optimized platform with leading price, performance, precision, and quality. And new today, everything you need to build and manage multi-agent systems. Second, Google Cloud offers an open, multi-cloud platform that allows you to adopt AI agents while connecting them with your existing IT landscape. And third, Google Cloud offers an enterprise ready AI platform built for interoperability.

Today, I'm pleased to announce three new innovations with Gemini and Workspace. Help Me Analyze in Google Sheets, which guides you through your data, Audio Overviews in Google Docs, where you can interact with docs, and Google Workspace Flows to help you automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks and to make decisions with more context. With Gemini, Imagen, Chirp, Lyria, and Veo, Google is the only company that offers generative media models across all modality. And all of them are available to you today on Vertex AI. Vertex AI gives you easy access to over 200 curated foundation models through our model gardens. Let's hear from Deutsche Bank CEO, Christian Sewing.

Now let's talk about agents. Agents are intelligent systems that show reasoning, planning, memory, and the ability to use tools. A great example of a company working with Google Cloud to develop agents is Salesforce. Let's hear from CEO Marc Benioff.