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AI Models

Google CEO Pichai: Gemini's Next Leap Needs Larger Base Models

Alphabet raised its 2026 investment forecast to up to $205 billion as Google Cloud revenue surged 82% and the Gemini app hit 950 million monthly active users. CEO Sundar Pichai said the next generation of frontier AI models requires 'much larger base models,' and Google is training Gemini 4 to close the gap with rivals. The company also noted efficiency gains in AI Mode and a focus on improving coding capabilities.

Jul 233 minNeura News

Industry

Google Raises Capex to $180B as AI Spending Surges

Alphabet reported Q2 revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates. The company raised its capital expenditure guidance to at least $180 billion, signaling accelerating AI spending. Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to $24.8 billion, driven by enterprise AI solutions. The Gemini app now has 950 million monthly active users and processes 22 billion API tokens per minute.

Jul 222 minNeura News

Industry

Google Cloud boom justifies massive AI spending for Alphabet

Alphabet's latest earnings report shows Google Cloud revenue surged 82% year-over-year to $24.8 billion, driven by enterprise AI adoption. The company's profit hit $112.1 billion, a massive jump from $28.1 billion a year ago. CEO Sundar Pichai defended the company's hefty capital expenditures, saying investments in compute capacity will pay off in 2027.

Jul 222 minNeura News

Industry

Alphabet Profit Quadruples to $112 Billion on AI Investments

Alphabet reported a quadrupling of profit to $112.1 billion in the second quarter, driven by heavy investments in artificial intelligence. Revenue rose 24% to $119.8 billion, with Google Cloud surging 82%. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations, but concerns about AI spending persist amid new competition from China.

Jul 222 minNeura News

AI Models

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Boosts Performance Per Watt, Cuts Token Costs

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform is ramping up with 300 global partners, delivering 10x more tokens per megawatt than Grace Blackwell NVL72 in benchmarks. CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Mistral are among early adopters. The platform's extreme co-design across seven chips and five rack trays achieves the highest performance per watt and lowest token cost for AI factories.

Jul 219 minNeura News

AI Models

NVIDIA Confidential Computing Powers Apple Private Cloud Compute Expansion

NVIDIA announced that its GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) as Apple expands PCC beyond its own data centers to Google Cloud. The integration, unveiled at Apple's WWDC 2026, uses NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to support server-side inference for Apple Foundation Models, built by Apple and Google using technologies behind the Gemini family of models. The hardware-based security layer ensures that no one, including system builders, can access user data during processing.

Jun 93 minNeura News

Industry

Google Cloud Revenue Tops $20B in Q1 Amid Capacity Limits

Google Cloud achieved over $20 billion in revenue for the first time in Q1 2026, marking 63% year-over-year growth. The division faced capacity constraints that limited further expansion, as noted by CEO Sundar Pichai. Strong demand for AI solutions like Gemini Enterprise drove the results, though a doubled backlog highlighted supply challenges.

Apr 293 minNeura News

Industry

Meta Agrees to Use Millions of AWS Graviton AI CPUs

Meta has agreed to deploy millions of AWS Graviton chips to meet its expanding AI demands, Amazon announced. These ARM-based CPUs target workloads from AI agents, such as real-time reasoning and multi-step tasks. The move pulls Meta's spending back to AWS after a prior large Google Cloud commitment.

Apr 243 minNeura News

Product Launch

NVIDIA and Google Cut AI Inference Costs

Google and NVIDIA announced new hardware at Google Cloud Next to reduce AI inference costs at scale. A5X instances on Vera Rubin NVL72 systems deliver 10 times lower cost per token and higher throughput. Features include confidential computing, agent platforms, and manufacturing tools used by OpenAI, CrowdStrike, and others.

Apr 235 minNeura News

Product Launch

Google Rolls Out AI Tools in Workspace Updates

Google revealed several AI-driven enhancements to its Workspace productivity suite during Google Cloud Next. Key additions include Workspace Intelligence for task automation, Gemini-powered Google Sheets building and filling, and AI writing aids in Google Docs. These tools use user data from apps like Gmail and Drive to speed up common office work.

Apr 223 minNeura News

Product Launch

Google Cloud Launches TPU 8t and 8i AI Chips

Google Cloud revealed its eighth-generation tensor processing units, divided into TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference. These chips offer up to three times faster model training, 80 percent better performance per dollar, and support for over one million TPUs in a cluster. The company plans to keep Nvidia hardware available while collaborating on networking improvements.

Apr 223 minNeura News

AI Tools

Google Launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for IT Teams

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at the Google Cloud Next conference. The tool targets IT and technical teams for building agents at scale, amid security concerns in enterprise AI. Business users turn to the separate Gemini Enterprise app for simpler tasks.

Apr 223 minNeura News