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
- 17:40
NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (B200 and GB200) comes to Google Cloud early in 2025; TPU v5p became generally available
- 22:37
Google Axion, Google's first custom Arm-based data center CPU, was announced, preview later in the year
- 24:03
Gemini 1.5 Pro entered public preview on Vertex AI with a context window of up to 1 million tokens
- 25:53
Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku became generally available on Vertex AI, with Opus coming
- 47:49
A Workspace add-on for AI meetings and messaging (notes, summaries, translation) was priced at $10 per user per month
- 1:02:49
Google Vids, an AI video creation app for work, joined Docs, Sheets and Slides
- 1:26:14
Google's enterprise AI coding assistant was renamed Gemini Code Assist
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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DJYGn2SFk
Thomas KurianCEO, Google Cloud
Sundar PichaiCEO of Google and Alphabet
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.