CEO of Google Cloud since 2019. Former President of Product Development at Oracle. Has transformed Google Cloud into a major enterprise AI platform, closing the gap with AWS and Azure through Vertex AI and Gemini integrations.
Kurian is running the most underappreciated AI cloud play in the market. Google Cloud went from a distant third to the only hyperscaler with both homegrown frontier models (Gemini) and a major partnership with the leading safety-focused lab (Anthropic). His Oracle-forged enterprise sales discipline — something Google desperately lacked — is finally converting Google's research dominance into enterprise revenue. The quiet competitor label is exactly right: while Nadella and Jassy grab headlines, Kurian is methodically closing deals that matter.
Today we announced a new AI Focused Organization within our Go-To-Market team to help bring our customers closer to our products, agent platform, engineering and research teams. As part of this expansion, we are investing in hiring additional Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to help us scale customer AI transformation. While having FDEs is not new for Google Cloud, the demand from customers and partners for Google enterprise AI products and Google engineers to help them embrace agent development is growing very rapidly. This is in addition to our recently announced $750 million Ecosystem Commitment to deliver new resources and incentives to partners in our 120,000-member ecosystem to help accelerate joint customers transformations with agentic AI. If you are a builder who wants to work on the world's largest stages and be at the center of the Agentic Era—join us. https://lnkd.in/guSeHkCe
Over the last year, we’ve seen customers move from pilot to adoption, using AI to transform their businesses at scale. Nearly 75% of Google Cloud customers now leverage our AI products to power their businesses. Over the past 12 months, 330 Google Cloud customers each processed over one trillion tokens, while 35 reached the 10-trillion-token milestone with our models. Here are a few we shared at #GoogleCloudNext: - Capcom is using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to build playtesting and predictive agents that improve the gameplay experience. - Citi is launching “Citi Sky,” an always-on, AI-powered member of the Citi Wealth team that will reshape how clients in the United States access market insights, act on opportunities, and engage with their financial advisors. - GE Appliances, a Haier company is democratizing AI by putting it in the hands of the people closest to the work, with more than 800 AI agents deployed across manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain. - The Home Depot is utilizing our Shopping Agent and Gemini Enterprise to put the specialized expertise of an "Orange Apron" associate directly into the hands of every DIY customer. - Merck is deploying a Gemini Enterprise-powered “agentic engine” to enhance decision-making across its value chain. - Vodafone is deploying Gemini Enterprise agents to proactively resolve outages and optimize infrastructure, scaling network reliability and saving millions every year. See more ways businesses across industries are leveraging AI on our blog: https://lnkd.in/e4Rd8ZP4
Today at #GoogleCloudNext we're sharing new innovations across our integrated stack to to help transform your organization to an Agentic Enterprise: - Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is our new, comprehensive platform that has everything your technical teams need to build, orchestrate, govern and optimize agents. - Gemini Enterprise app includes a new Agent Designer, Inbox for managing agent activity, long-running agents, Skills, Projects and more. - Our 8th Generation TPUs, including TPU 8t for accelerated training and TPU 8i for cost-effective, near-zero latency inference. - Agentic Data Cloud introduces a new, AI-native architecture that allows your data to be utilized at AI speed, including Knowledge Catalog, Data Agent Kit, and a cross-cloud, AI-native Lakehouse. - Agentic Defense delivers a number of new agents for threat detection, detection engineering, remediation and more, along with Wiz's AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP), providing autonomous protection from code to cloud to runtime across multicloud, hybrid, and AI environments. - The Agentic Taskforce delivers a frictionless journey for your customers and helps employees be more effective. It includes our Gemini Enterprise for Customer Engagement Suite and Workspace Intelligence that streamlines productivity by providing a unified context layer across Workspace apps. We deliver all of this with a commitment to openness, and interoperability so you can choose what’s best for your business - whether it comes from us, or one of our many partners. Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/e4Rd8ZP4