What’s new in GKE at Next ‘26

Google Cloud Next '26 introduced significant updates to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for demanding AI workloads, including a new agent sandbox for secure, scalable, and low-latency infrastructure, and hypercluster for managing millions of accelerators. This matters as Kubernetes has become the operating system for the AI era, powering AI workloads for top customers and seeing a massive acceleration in enterprise AI. Key updates include improved inference performance, reinforcement learning enhancers, and scaling on custom metrics. Engineers should explore these new features to optimize their GKE infrastructure for AI workloads.