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Google Cloud Next is where the cloud giant showcases its latest and greatest innovations.
Just as at Google Cloud Next 2024, the 2025 event was largely about AI-related developments. Beyond just the AI model though, Google Cloud debuted new cloud infrastructure services, networking capabilities, and security updates.
Google Cloud Next 2025 Key Announcements
Key announcements that came out of Google Cloud Next 2025, which took place this week in Las Vegas, included the following:
Ironwood TPU: Google’s 7th-generation Tensor Processing Unit delivers 3,600x better performance than first-gen TPUs, with 42.5 exaflops of compute per pod.
Cloud Wide Area Network (Cloud WAN): Google’s global private network, spanning 200+ countries with 2+ million miles of fiber, is now available to all enterprises.
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash: Advanced “thinking models” with Flash are optimized for cost efficiency and low latency.
Agent Development Kit and Agent2Agent Protocol: The open source frameworks are available for building multi-agent systems.
Google Unified Security: The consolidated AI-powered security solution combines threat intelligence, security operations, and cloud security.
Google Distributed Cloud: On-premises Gemini is deployed for
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