VentureBeat April 9, 2025
Michael Nuñez

Google Cloud is making an aggressive play to solidify its position in the increasingly competitive artificial intelligence landscape, announcing a sweeping array of new technologies focused on “thinking models,” agent ecosystems, and specialized infrastructure designed specifically for large-scale AI deployments.

At its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas today, Google revealed its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Ironwood, which the company claims delivers more than 42 exaflops of computing power per pod — a staggering 24 times more powerful than the world’s leading supercomputer, El Capitan.

“The opportunity with AI is as big as it gets,” said Amin Vahdat, Google’s vice president and general manager of ML systems and cloud AI, during a press conference ahead of the...

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