Day 1 at Google Cloud Next ‘26 recap

Last year at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we asked you to imagine a new future for AI. At Next ‘26, the question before you is how do you move AI into production across your entire enterprise?

According to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, the answer is straightforward: You need a unified stack, with “chips that are designed for models, models that are grounded in your data, agents and applications that are built with those models,” and the whole thing “secured by the infrastructure,” Thomas said in his keynote. (This is the same unified stack that Google uses for Search, YouTube, Chrome, and Android. As Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in his opening remarks, “a big focus of ours  is to always be customer zero for our own technologies.”)

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