Here are the six most important remarks by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian during his keynote at Google Cloud Next 2025 today around Agentspace, Wiz, Workspace and why customers are placing their bet on Google’s AI technology.

Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian took to the main stage today at Google Cloud Next 2025 to deliver a keynote speech revolving around his bullish goals for AI while touting new innovation launched today at Google’s conference.

“Google’s AI momentum is exciting,” Kurian said during his keynote on Wednesday. “We’re seeing more than 4 million developers using Gemini, a 20-time increase in Vertex AI usage last year driven by the strong adoption of Gemini Flash, Gemini 2.0, Imagin 3.0 and most recently, our advanced video generation model. And over 2 billion AI assists monthly to business users, right within Google Workspace.”

Tens of thousands of Google partners, customers and developers flocked to Las Vegas this week to attend Google Cloud Next 2025.

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“We at Google Cloud are committed to helping each of you innovate by delivering the leading enterprise-ready, AI-optimized platform with the best infrastructure, leading models, tools and agents—by offering an open, multi cloud platform and building for interoperability so we can speed up time to value for your AI investments,” Google Cloud’s CEO said. “We are honored to be building this new way to cloud with each of you.”

Kurian spoke about the three key reasons why customers are selecting Google’s AI solutions, new Google Cloud innovation for Workspace and Agentspace, touched on Google’s upcoming $32 billion acquisition of security superstar Wiz, and explained his company’s AI strategy.

Here are the six of the most significant remarks made by Thomas Kurian during his keynote at Google Cloud Next 2025 today.

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