Google hosted their Google Cloud Next meeting in Las Vegas this week, announcing hundreds of new features such as its next-generation AI processing processor, Ironwood, and its most recent AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash.
It also disclosed an extensive roster of AI startups that have agreed to use its cloud. They include some of the world’s most watched startups. This list includes Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a firm formed by Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI and former head scientist.
It also contains:
Anysphere creates the well-known AI-powered code editor Cursor. Google claims Cursor is employing Anthropic’s Claude models on Google Cloud. Sources informed TechCrunch that Cursor was recently valued at $10 billion. Its main opponent is presumably GitHub CoPilot; thus, Microsoft would be one of its top competitors.
Hebbia employs artificial intelligence to search massive documents and answer queries, making it a popular choice in the legal business. Andreessen Horowitz led, with Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Peter Thiel participating in the $130 million Series B. It employs Google’s Gemini models, Google claims.
Magic is developing frontier models to automate both coding and research. The decision to use Google Cloud is likely to be evident, considering that Alphabet’s CapitalG and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt are among the investors in the 2024 $320 million financing round. It is using Google Cloud for GPUs, according to Google.
Moreover, Physical Intelligence is building basic software for robots and includes a who’s-who list of co-founders, including single investment extraordinaire Lachy Groom. In November, it received $400 million at a pre-money valuation of $2 billion from Sequoia, Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, and Thrive Capital. Karol Hausman and Chelsea Finn, two of its creators, have previous experience at Google DeepMind.
In addition, Photoroom is one of the top AI businesses in Paris, Europe’s AI capital. It provides AI photo editing and makes use of Google Cloud’s Veo 2 video-producing model and Imagen 3 text-to-image engine.
Synthesia is developing technologies that create incredibly lifelike AI avatars, utilizing multiple Google models. It secured $180 million in a $2.1 billion round in January, headed by NEA but also GV (previously known as Google Ventures).
Furthermore, Google announced the addition of Lightspeed to its VC partners, joining Sequoia and Y Combinator. Google Cloud gives portfolio firms from its partner investors access to AI processors and models. Google claimed that Lightspeed’s AI portfolio firms can qualify for $150,000 in cloud credits. So it intends to get even more rising star firms to join its cloud.
Overall, Google Cloud is building an outstanding list of companies to help it compete with Microsoft Azure and, to a lesser extent, Amazon Web Services for AI workloads.
Here are the other AI companies that Google highlighted this week:
Augment Code: AI Software Coding Agent
Autoscience: Refers to the scientific investigation of AI agents.
Big Sur AI: Tailored suggestions for e-commerce.
Captions— Talking video maker and video editor.
Eon.io: It provides autonomous corporate backup and recovery.
Fal is text to picture and image to video.
Spot AI: AI for security cameras.
Story: Blockchain for storing and licensing intellectual property.
StudyHall AI trains students in reading, writing, and test preparation.
Ubie – Japanese healthcare symptom analyzer
Udio — Music Creation
Ufonia is the agent for clinical healthcare conversations with patients.
Wagestream is a financial well-being platform designed by NGOs.
Wondercraft: GenAI Realistic Audio Content
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