Here are the six most important remarks by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian during his keynote at Google Cloud Next 2025 today around Agentspace, Wiz, Workspace and why customers are placing their bet on Google’s AI technology.
Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian took to the main stage today at Google Cloud Next 2025 to deliver a keynote speech revolving around his bullish goals for AI while touting new innovation launched today at Google’s conference.
“Google’s AI momentum is exciting,” Kurian said during his keynote on Wednesday. “We’re seeing more than 4 million developers using Gemini, a 20-time increase in Vertex AI usage last year driven by the strong adoption of Gemini Flash, Gemini 2.0, Imagin 3.0 and most recently, our advanced video generation model. And over 2 billion AI assists monthly to business users, right within Google Workspace.”
Tens of thousands of Google partners, customers and developers flocked to Las Vegas this week to attend Google Cloud Next 2025.
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“We at Google Cloud are committed to helping each of you innovate by delivering the leading enterprise-ready, AI-optimized platform with the best infrastructure, leading models, tools and agents—by offering an open, multi cloud platform and building for interoperability so we can speed up time to value for your AI investments,” Google Cloud’s CEO said. “We are honored to be building this new way to cloud with each of you.”
Kurian spoke about the three key reasons why customers are selecting Google’s AI solutions, new Google Cloud innovation for Workspace and Agentspace, touched on Google’s upcoming $32 billion acquisition of security superstar Wiz, and explained his company’s AI strategy.
Here are the six of the most significant remarks made by Thomas Kurian during his keynote at Google Cloud Next 2025 today.
Gemini Now Included In All Workspace Subscriptions; Three New Innovations
Gemini is providing best-in-class AI for many companies around the world.
Gemini is integrated across our own products, including Google Workspace where Gemini powers features in Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Meet, and is now included in all subscriptions.
Today, I’m pleased to announce three new innovations with Gemini in Workspace.
‘Help Me Analyze’ in Google Sheets, which guides you through your data to complete expert level analysis.
Audio Overview in Google Docs, where you can interact with docs in an entirely new way by creating high quality audio versions of your content.
And Google Workspace Flows to help you automate time consuming repetitive tasks and to make decisions with more context.
Kurian On Wiz Acquisition
We’re continuing to invest in our security offerings.
Just last month, we signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, a leading multi-cloud security platform to provide better cybersecurity alternatives for businesses and governments around the world.
New Agent Development Kit
Our new Agent Development Kit is a new open-source framework that simplifies the process of building sophisticated multi agent systems.
Now you can build sophisticated Gemini-powered agents, help them use tools, do complex multi-step tasks including reasoning and thinking. You can also discover other agents, learn their skills and enable agents to work together while maintaining precise control.
Agent Development Kit supports the model context protocol, which provides a unified way for AI models to access and interact with various data sources and tools, rather than requiring custom integrations for each and every one.
Customers Are Choosing Google’s AI ‘For Three Important Reasons’
Customers around the world are choosing to work with Google for three important reasons.
First, Google Cloud offers an AI-optimized platform with leading price, performance, precision, and quality. And new today everything you need to build and manage multi-agent systems. Our AI platform offers advanced infrastructure and databases, world class research leading models, and grounding for model responses with Google quality search.
Vertex AI, our robust developer platform, includes the broadest range of enterprise ready tools with which you can build AI agents and enable a multi agent ecosystem—and the most comprehensive portfolio of purpose-built agents.
Second, Google Cloud offers an open, multi-cloud platform that allows you to adopt AI agents while connecting them with your existing IT landscape—including your databases, your document stores, enterprise applications and interoperating with models and agents from other providers. You get value faster from your AI investments.
Third, Google Cloud offers an enterprise-ready AI platform built for interoperability. It enables you to adopt AI deeply while addressing the evolving concerns around sovereignty, security, privacy and regulatory requirements. You can adopt AI while we protect your data and your intellectual property and enable you to maintain compliance.
Agentspace For Chrome; New Idea Generation And Deep Research Agents
We’re excited to announce that Agentspace is integrated with your Chrome browser to allow users to search and access your enterprise data directly from the search box in Chrome.
Employees can use Agentspace to access Google built expert AI agents, including NotebookLM, an AI powered note taking and research agent that allows users to upload up to 50 documents with 25 million words and then query them using AI—effectively turning notes and sources into a virtual research assistant.
You can also use our new Idea Generation agent, which accelerates innovation, brainstorming and problem solving. It uses a tournament-style framework to rank ideas based on employee defined criteria, refine them, and generate new ones.
Our new enterprise Deep Research agent researches complex topics on your behalf and provides you with findings in a comprehensive, easy to read report.
Four Keys To Integration And Innovation
We’re delivering an amazing stream of new innovations and making it easy to integrate those innovations into your existing technology landscape. We do this in four important ways.
First, connecting your clouds with other clouds and applications; enabling secure cross-cloud networking with cross-cloud Interconnect; using your existing security platforms; applying federated identity with Microsoft EntraID; and using BigQuery and AlloyDB without moving from Amazon or Azure, which is helping companies like Johnson & Johnson and Walmart.
Second, we’re working with many leading ISVs to integrate them with Google AI. You have access to these ISV solutions, which are pre-integrated and easily deployed from the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Third, our services partners have created thousands of agents that bring their deep understanding of your industry and existing IT systems. In fact, Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, HCLtech, KPMG, TCS and Wipro are all making agent announcements with Google Cloud today.
Fourth, we’re enabling sovereign clouds with partners to meet international regulations. Today, we offer Google Cloud Sovereign AI Services in our public cloud, sovereign cloud and distributed cloud, as well as with Google Workspace.
