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Google Cloud Next 2024: Opening keynote

Thomas Kurian · Sundar Pichai · Apr 9, 2024 · 1h 41m · Las Vegas, Nevada

Summary

Kurian'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 · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said1:40:42
  1. 17:40

    NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (B200 and GB200) comes to Google Cloud early in 2025; TPU v5p became generally available

  2. 22:37

    Google Axion, Google's first custom Arm-based data center CPU, was announced, preview later in the year

  3. 24:03

    Gemini 1.5 Pro entered public preview on Vertex AI with a context window of up to 1 million tokens

  4. 25:53

    Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku became generally available on Vertex AI, with Opus coming

  5. 47:49

    A Workspace add-on for AI meetings and messaging (notes, summaries, translation) was priced at $10 per user per month

  6. 1:02:49

    Google Vids, an AI video creation app for work, joined Docs, Sheets and Slides

  7. 1:26:14

    Google's enterprise AI coding assistant was renamed Gemini Code Assist

Announced

3 available the same day
ComingGoogle AxionFirst Google Arm-based data center CPU, preview later in 2024
GATPU v5pMost powerful and scalable TPU at the time
ComingNVIDIA Grace Blackwell on Google CloudB200 and GB200, early 2025
PreviewGemini 1.5 Pro on Vertex AI1 million token context window
GACodeGemmaLightweight open model for coding
GAAI Meetings and Messaging add-on$10 per user per month for Meet and Chat AI features
AnnouncedGoogle VidsAI video creation app in Workspace
AnnouncedGemini Code AssistEnterprise AI coding assistant, formerly Duet AI for Developers

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DJYGn2SFk

On stage
Sources

Photos: Eric Dietrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Photographer: Lukasz Kobus (European Commission), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Companies named: Anthropic, HubSpot, Mistral AI, Nvidia, SAP, Google Cloud

Last changed 2026-09-24.