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Karthik Narain shared thisMoving generative media from a pilot phase to full enterprise production requires a focus on everyday operational costs and speed. To help organizations scale these workloads, we have added two new high-speed, cost-efficient models to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. 📍 Nano Banana 2 Lite (GA) makes high-frequency image generation and real-time asset variation commercially viable with four-second rendering. 📍 Gemini Omni Flash (Preview) brings conversational video editing directly into enterprise applications, reducing production costs to ten cents per second. Both architectures embed C2PA credentials and SynthID watermarking by default, giving organizations built-in safety governance at scale. Exceptional to see partners like Adobe, WPP and Artlist already using these models to reshape their creative pipelines. Full details on the Google Cloud blog: https://lnkd.in/geAx4iuK
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Karthik Narain shared thisWe are partnering with FactSet to bring agentic AI directly into the workflows of financial professionals. AI in financial services needs to be anchored in reliable, industry-specific data. By combining Gemini models and Google Cloud infrastructure with FactSet's trusted market intelligence, we are making it possible for investment and corporate finance teams to uncover insights faster, automate complex tasks, and drive real business value. Our teams will collaborate closely on AI-native workflows, deeper integrations with Gemini Enterprise, and specialized agents built for portfolio and deal management. Great to partner with Sanoke Viswanathan and the FactSet team to help shape the future of financial intelligence. Read the full details in here: https://lnkd.in/ggrTShgTFactSet Announces Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud to Bring Advanced AI to Financial IntelligenceFactSet Announces Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud to Bring Advanced AI to Financial Intelligence
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Karthik Narain shared thisI just returned from a highly productive week in Europe, anchored by our DACH Summit in Frankfurt. The region is moving past AI experimentation and focusing heavily on production-ready, highly regulated enterprise deployment. Throughout our keynote sessions and roundtable discussions, several key strategic themes emerged regarding how European enterprises are approaching the next wave of digital transformation: 📍 Infrastructure as the AI Foundation: AI’s potential to transform Europe’s economy depends on robust infrastructure. We continue to invest heavily across EMEA, with 17 Cloud regions—including our newest in Stockholm and Johannesburg—and 10 subsea cable investments. This footprint delivers the low-latency, high-performance computing required for real-time AI processing within European borders. 📍 Technical, Verifiable Sovereignty: European enterprises demand data control, resilience, and geopolitical risk mitigation. While others offer vague legal promises, we deliver technical solutions. Google Cloud remains a leader in digital sovereignty, offering the only fully air-gapped cloud solution available in Europe today. 📍 Strategic Local Partnerships: Our momentum is accelerated by localized collaboration. We recently partnered with Thales to launch a sovereign cloud offering in Germany, tailored for the public sector and highly regulated industries. Operated by a 100% German, Thales-owned entity with isolated infrastructure, this development represents a major step toward a pan-European, geo-redundant sovereign cloud. A special thank you to our customers for sharing their deployment journeys, and to our regional leadership—Tara Brady, Luca Callegari, and Per Gustafsson—along with the entire Google Cloud EMEA team for hosting such a high-impact week.
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Karthik Narain shared thisThe agentic era is redefining software engineering, and few companies illustrate this shift as clearly as Lovable. We are expanding our collaboration with Lovable to support their rapid growth—now reaching over 200,000 new projects daily—by integrating Gemini models and our AI-optimized infrastructure. By anchoring their platform on Google Cloud, Lovable is providing developers and enterprises with the scale, security, and governance necessary to move from concept to production-ready software with confidence. You can now find the Lovable Agent in our Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery and deploy via Google Cloud Marketplace. Read more about our announcement here: https://lnkd.in/g5rwsng9
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Karthik Narain shared thisBig news today from Google Cloud and Workday: we are expanding our strategic partnership to bring agentic AI directly into the daily workflows of HR and finance teams globally. Crucially, Gemini is now the default AI model for Workday’s Sana Self-Service Agent. From the model layer to the platform layer, Gemini and Google Cloud will now underpin some of the most critical and common workflows in human resources and finance departments globally. This ensures employees can get faster, more accurate answers, streamline repetitive tasks, and ultimately focus on the work that matters most. Read the full details in the joint press release here: https://lnkd.in/gijnzpJcWorkday and Google Cloud Expand Strategic Partnership to Bring AI Agents for HR and Finance Into Employees' Daily WorkflowsWorkday and Google Cloud Expand Strategic Partnership to Bring AI Agents for HR and Finance Into Employees' Daily Workflows
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Karthik Narain shared thisOur new partnership with EQT Group brings the full power of Google Cloud’s agentic AI platform and Gemini models to more than 300 global portfolio companies. Agentic AI presents an important opportunity for businesses to operate more efficiently and deliver better outcomes for their end customers. By combining EQT’s deep value-creation expertise with our advanced AI stack and forward-deployed engineering teams, we are helping these teams future-proof their operations and securely scale into AI-first enterprises. I look forward to working alongside Bert J. and the entire EQT team to accelerate this industry-wide transformation. https://lnkd.in/gZge6zs6Karthik Narain shared thisToday, EQT and Google Cloud announced a new partnership focused on accelerating AI adoption across EQT’s global portfolio companies. AI has long been an important part of EQT’s approach to value creation, both across our own platform and in partnership with portfolio company management teams. Through this collaboration, EQT portfolio companies will have expanded access to Google Cloud’s AI technologies, architecture, engineering expertise, and cybersecurity capabilities to help scale AI adoption responsibly and effectively. The partnership reflects our belief that AI will continue to be a powerful driver of innovation, operational improvement, and long-term competitiveness across industries. We look forward to working with Google Cloud and our portfolio companies to help translate AI potential into meaningful business impact. Read more at the link below: https://spklv.io/6044rncg
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Karthik Narain shared thisAnnouncing Google AI Threat Defense! When I talk to CISOs, their biggest worry in the AI era isn't just the sophistication of attacks, it's the speed at which they happen. The window to patch vulnerabilities has shrunk from weeks to day or even hours, and expecting human teams to manually manage this across complex environments is unrealistic. To take the heavy lifting off our customers' shoulders, we are launching Google AI Threat Defense. It moves beyond traditional tools that only flag problems. Instead, it acts as a real-time force multiplier: - Prepare: It maps your cloud footprint using Wiz to identify exposed attack paths before they can be exploited - Scan: Gemini and other state of the art AI models actively hunt for vulnerabilities. - Remediate: It proactively generates and tests precise vulnerability fixes directly within developer workflows, accelerating how teams secure the software development lifecycle. - Monitor: It shifts runtime operations from manual oversight to machine-speed defense by enabling teams to rapidly hunt for hidden threats, investigate suspicious activity, and respond to live attacks in real time. This delivers autonomy under human supervision. Your teams retain strategic control, while AI handles the execution velocity for security backlogs. You can't fight automated adversaries with manual workflows. Let’s fight AI with AI. Read the full announcement details here: https://lnkd.in/gxrH5xsC
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Karthik Narain shared thisToday at #GoogleIO, we introduced a wave of AI innovations focused entirely on the transition from experimental AI to real-world production. There are a lot of updates rolling out, but what I am most excited about is how these tools fundamentally expand what organizations can achieve. We are moving beyond simple assistants to deliver autonomous, secure execution at enterprise scale. Here are a few highlights from the announcements and what they mean for your teams and workflows: 🚀 Gemini 3.5 Series & Gemini Omni: Our long-awaited next-generation family of models is finally here. Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers frontier-level capabilities at less than half the price of comparable frontier models, making complex automation incredibly efficient. Gemini Omni is a new generative AI model that produces any output modality from any input—we’re starting with video output. 🛠️Google Antigravity: We are expanding Antigravity into a comprehensive platform within the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to give developers a governed framework to build and scale agents within secure cloud boundaries. Early adopters like Accenture, AirAsia Next, Deloitte, Monks, PwC, and WPP are already using it to turn functional requirements into code, drastically compressing development cycles. ⚡ Gemini Spark: Spark is our new 24/7 personal agent that can work in the background across Workspace, custom connectors, and the open web. It autonomously manages heavy operational lifting, while requiring explicit user approval, freeing teams for strategic work. We are making it seamless for organizations to move from initial idea to real business impact. Check out the full details here: https://lnkd.in/gEhDzvXg
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Karthik Narain shared thisGoogle has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms. In this midcycle update, Google was positioned highest in ‘Ability to Execute’ among all vendors evaluated. We believe this recognition for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform underscores a clear reality: successful, enterprise-wide agentic adoption requires a dedicated AI Agent Development Platform. Organizations cannot scale isolated pilots without a full-lifecycle approach that balances development speed, operational scale, and strict enterprise governance. Our platform design addresses this balance directly through three core areas, enabling teams to ship agents at scale with confidence: 1) Govern by default: Embedding accountability and oversight into every layer of the agent lifecycle to maintain governance at scale. 2) Persistence for long-running tasks: Enabling agents to follow through on complex, multi-step workflows without sacrificing execution speed. 3) Visibility for predictable outcomes: Turning deep observability into reliable business results as operations scale. We are proud to provide the infrastructure that allows our customers to innovate quickly while maintaining the control that enterprise production demands. Learn more about the report here: https://goo.gle/4djSj2m
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Karthik Narain liked thisKarthik Narain liked thisThe highest-leverage performance move: design the environment, not squeeze more effort. Organizational behavior studies show that systems and context drive consistent performance more reliably than individual effort. Leaders who alter meeting formats, physical layouts, or feedback loops see measurable gains in productivity and morale. Tip: experiment with a single contextual change this quarter — shorter standups, dedicated deep-work blocks, or a no-email hour — and track one KPI for 90 days. Shift one contextual element and watch outcomes improve. Leaders who design context get outsized results. #Leadership #Productivity #WorkplaceDesign #PerformanceOptimization #Habits
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Karthik Narain liked thisWith Lip Bu Tan, Intel CEO and Founder Walden Intl
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Karthik Narain liked thisKarthik Narain liked thisToday at #GoogleCloudSummitNordics, we are announcing an expanded, multi-year collaboration with Lovable to leverage Gemini models and AI-optimized infrastructure for global application development in the agentic era. The collaboration centers on three core pillars: 🔷 Verified network of third-party agents: To ensure enterprise-grade oversight as its tools scale, Lovable has launched its Lovable Agent in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery. 🔷 Enterprise-grade security: Enterprise-grade security is a cornerstone of the collaboration, further reinforced by a new Wiz integration that will identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI-generated code for Lovable users in real time. 🔷 Simplified procurement and billing: Lovable and the Lovable Agent are now available for customers to deploy in Google Cloud Marketplace and Gemini Enterprise, ensuring simplified procurement and billing, as well as enterprise-grade governance and security. Read the full announcement here → https://goo.gle/43JWPCN
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