The top announcements for startups from Google I/O ‘26 (opens in new tab)

Many of the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are choosing to build their future — and the world’s — on Google Cloud because of our complete and open AI stack. We embed AI into every layer of our architecture so your team is fully equipped to build and scale for the agentic era. At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we focused on providing updates to each layer of the stack to help lean teams move faster and operate more efficiently. We introduced a unified Agent Platform that moves beyond isolated AI ...