Cloud Next 2024 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
- 1NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (B200 and GB200) comes to Google Cloud early in 2025; TPU v5p became generally available17:40
- 2Google Axion, Google's first custom Arm-based data center CPU, was announced, preview later in the year22:37
- 3Gemini 1.5 Pro entered public preview on Vertex AI with a context window of up to 1 million tokens24:03
- 4Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku became generally available on Vertex AI, with Opus coming25:53
- 5A Workspace add-on for AI meetings and messaging (notes, summaries, translation) was priced at $10 per user per month47:49
- 6Google Vids, an AI video creation app for work, joined Docs, Sheets and Slides1:02:49
- 7Google's enterprise AI coding assistant was renamed Gemini Code Assist1:26:14
Announced
3 available the same day| 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 |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DJYGn2SFk
- Thomas KurianCEO, Google Cloud
- Sundar PichaiCEO of Google and Alphabet
Companies named: Anthropic, HubSpot, Mistral AI, Nvidia, SAP, Google Cloud
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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