7 highlights from Google Cloud Next ‘26

7 highlights from Google Cloud Next ‘26

1. The new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is here.

For the technical teams building the future, we’re introducing the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It’s a complete, end-to-end workspace to build, govern and scale your AI agents with the world’s best models at your fingertips.

We’re providing direct access to Gemini 3.1 Pro, our most capable model yet for handling complex workflows, alongside Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (also known as Nano Banana 2) for creating stunning visual assets, and Lyria 3 for professional-grade audio. We’re also expanding our commitment to open choice by adding Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7.

2. The Gemini Enterprise app brings AI to your everyday work.

We’re bringing the power of the agents directly to your workforce through the Gemini Enterprise app. To ensure everyone can tap into this technology, our no-code Agent Designer lets anyone build custom, trigger-based workflows without writing a single line of code.

3. Our new eighth-generation TPUs are designed to power the AI era.

Running millions of AI agents takes some serious computing muscle. Our AI Hypercomputer is a purpose-built system designed specifically for the massive scale of this new era, including the eighth generation of our custom TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) chips.

The TPU 8t is built to train AI models incredibly fast, while the TPU 8i is optimized for inference (actually serving up the models), delivering 80% better performance per dollar. We will also be among the first to offer the new NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, joining our existing lineup of NVIDIA GPUs and our super-efficient Google Cloud Axion processors.

4. The new Agentic Data Cloud helps make sense of your data.

An AI agent is only as helpful as the information it understands. We’re introducing the Agentic Data Cloud as a completely new way of organizing your data so AI can take action in real time. The Knowledge Catalog acts like a dynamic map of your entire business. Using Gemini, it autonomously tags and connects the dots across your enterprise so your agents actually understand the unique context and lingo of your company.

5. We’re building security for the AI age.

As cybersecurity threats get smarter, human defenders need AI on their side. We’re combining Google’s world-class threat intelligence with Wiz’s leading security platform to give you agentic defense. Specialized new agents include the Threat Hunting agent that can proactively hunt for threats and write security rules autonomously, the Detection Engineering agent that can identify coverage gaps and create new detections, and the Third-Party Context agent that provides contextual data from third-party content.

Wiz, now a part of Google Cloud, expands and deepens our ability to protect the apps you build and run. Wiz has added Databricks to the list of cloud platforms it supports, as well as more AI studios and multicloud platforms-as-a-service.