cloud-next-2026

At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.

At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled the TPU 8t and TPU 8i, its first-ever split TPU line, with Anthropic as anchor customer for up to one million chips across 2026 and 3.5 gigawatts in 2027.