Google Cloud Next 2024
Apr 9, 2024 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Cloud Next 2025 · Cloud Next 2026
Google Cloud Next '24 Opening KeynoteApr 9, 2024 · 1h 41m · Thomas Kurian, Sundar PichaiKurian's 2024 opener put Gemini across Google Cloud: Gemini 1.5 Pro with a 1 million token context in public preview on Vertex AI, agents for customers and employees, Gemini in Workspace and new infrastructure from TPU v5p to the Axion Arm CPU and NVIDIA Grace Blackwell. Sundar Pichai opened by video.
Key themes: Models, Agents, AI infrastructure
- 1NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (B200 and GB200) comes to Google Cloud early in 2025; TPU v5p became generally available
- 2Google Axion, Google's first custom Arm-based data center CPU, was announced, preview later in the year
- 3Gemini 1.5 Pro entered public preview on Vertex AI with a context window of up to 1 million tokens
- 4Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku became generally available on Vertex AI, with Opus coming
- 5A Workspace add-on for AI meetings and messaging (notes, summaries, translation) was priced at $10 per user per month
- 6Google Vids, an AI video creation app for work, joined Docs, Sheets and Slides
- 7Google's enterprise AI coding assistant was renamed Gemini Code Assist
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Google AxionFirst Google Arm-based data center CPU, preview later in 2024 | Coming |
| TPU v5pMost powerful and scalable TPU at the time | GA |
| NVIDIA Grace Blackwell on Google CloudB200 and GB200, early 2025 | Coming |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro on Vertex AI1 million token context window | Preview |
| CodeGemmaLightweight open model for coding | GA |
| AI Meetings and Messaging add-on$10 per user per month for Meet and Chat AI features | GA |
| Google VidsAI video creation app in Workspace | Announced |
| Gemini Code AssistEnterprise AI coding assistant, formerly Duet AI for Developers | Announced |
Companies on stage
Named or launching: Anthropic, HubSpot, Mistral AI, Nvidia, SAP, Google Cloud
Sources: official keynote videos, their captions and the hosts' recaps, summarized by AI; watch the source for exact wording. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.