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Cloud Next 2025Keynote recap and announcements

Wednesday, April 9, 2025Las Vegas, NevadaCloud Next 2026
Google Cloud Next 25 Opening Keynote: The new way to cloudWednesday, April 9, 2025 · 1h 40m · Thomas Kurian
  1. 1Google Cloud shipped over 3,000 product advancements in the prior year
  2. 2Vertex AI usage grew 20x year over year
  3. 37th-generation Ironwood TPUs deliver 42.5 exaflops per pod, a 10x jump from the prior generation
  4. 4A4 and A4X VMs made Google Cloud the first provider offering both NVIDIA B200 and GB200
  5. 5The open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) lets developers build agents in under 100 lines of code
  6. 6The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol launched with over 50 partners for multi-agent interoperability
  7. 7Gemini 2.5 Pro entered public preview as a new thinking model for precision tasks
  8. 8Google Agentspace expanded with Chrome Enterprise integration and a new Agent Gallery
  • Ironwood TPUs (7th gen)42.5 exaflops per pod, 10x improvementGA
  • A4 & A4X VMsNVIDIA B200 and GB200, first cloud to offer bothGA
  • NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUsUp to 15 exaflops FP4 inference per rackComing
  • Cloud WANUp to 40% performance improvement, 40% TCO reductionGA
  • Gemini 2.5 ProPublic preview thinking model for precision tasksPreview
  • Agent Development Kit (ADK)Open-source; build agents in under 100 lines of codeAnnounced
  • Agent2Agent (A2A) ProtocolOpen protocol for multi-agent ecosystems, 50+ partnersAnnounced
  • Google AgentspaceExpanding with Chrome Enterprise integration, Agent GalleryAnnounced

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