Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Cloud Next

Investing.com -- Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai delivered a keynote speech at the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference, where he highlighted the tech giant's commitment to organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible. Pichai highlighted several advancements and reiterated the company's intention to invest approximately $75 billion in AI innovation throughout 2025.

The CEO announced the upcoming availability of Google’s global private network for enterprises, the Google Cloud Wide Area Network (WAN), which is set to become accessible to all Google Cloud customers later this month. The Cloud WAN promises to optimize application performance with over 40% faster performance and up to 40% reduced total cost of ownership.

Pichai also revealed its seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood, which is expected to launch later this year. Ironwood represents a significant leap in performance, boasting 3600 times better performance than Google's first TPU.

The TPU is designed for inference, providing five times more peak compute capacity and six times the high-bandwidth memory capacity compared to its predecessor, Trillium. Ironwood will be available in two configurations: 256 chips or 9,216 chips.

In the realm of quantum computing, Pichai discussed Willow, Google's latest quantum chip, which has solved a quantum error correction challenge that has puzzled researchers for three decades. The CEO considered the chip as a step forward for quantum, saying, "Willow really paves the way for a useful, large-scale quantum computer down the road."

Furthermore, Pichai talked about Gemini 2.5 Pro, now available to everyone through AI Studio, Vertex (NASDAQ: VRTX) AI, and the Gemini app. The model has achieved the highest score on Humanity’s Last Exam, a challenging industry benchmark, and is recognized as the best model in the world according to the OpenLM Chatbot Arena leaderboard.

Pichai also teased the upcoming Gemini 2.5 Flash, a low latency and cost-efficient reasoning model, announcing its imminent release without specifying a date. He also spoke briefly on Noreb

In concluding, the CEO emphasized Google's role: "Getting advances into the hands of both consumers and enterprises is something we are really focused on... The result: better, faster, and more innovation for everyone."

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