Google Cloud announced a $750 million investment in their Cloud Next conference to accelerate agentic AI deployment throughout its 120,000-member partner ecosystem and a series of infrastructure deals that were major and the introduction of new AI tools highlighted the growing competition between tech giants to take over enterprise AI.
The fund will assist global consultants, systems integrators and software partners with AI prototyping agents, deployment of agents, and upskilling courses. Google will deploy forward-looking engineers with companies such as Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte as well as TCS as well as companies like Accenture, Bain, BCG and McKinsey will have access early to Gemini models. Kevin Ichhpurani, president of Google Cloud’s global partner network, stated that partners are increasingly crucial channels for the distribution of AI technologies to enterprises at a larger scale.
On the infrastructure front Mira Murati’s private business Thinking Machines Lab — formed in February 2025, following Murati left as the OpenAI’s chief technology officer entered into a multibillion dollar agreement with Google Cloud and will gain early access to cloud systems powered by Nvidia’s new GB300 chips which Google claims to provide more training and serve speeds of older generation GPUs. The agreement, first reported by TechCrunch will support the reinforcement learning tasks that are underpinning Thinking Machines’ Tinker product which automates making custom advanced AI models.
Google also revealed its generative AI tools for its geospatial and map platforms, such as Maps Imagery Grounding — which allows enterprise users to create authentic Street View scenes from text prompts using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform -as well as Aerial and Satellite Insights, which utilizes AI to satellite images stored in BigQuery which compresses the work of analyzing weeks into minutes.
