Day 1 at Google Cloud Next ‘26 recap

Google Cloud Next '26 highlighted the importance of a unified stack for AI production across the enterprise. This stack includes chips designed for models, models grounded in data, and applications built with those models. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian emphasized the need for a unified stack, citing Google's own use of it for Search, YouTube, Chrome, and Android. To achieve this, Google announced Gemini Enterprise, an end-to-end system for the agentic era, which includes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. This platform allows for building, scaling, governing, and optimizing agents with features such as AI-native coding capabilities and enterprise-grade guardrails.