700+ founders, developers, partners, and Googlers from Google for Startups and Google DeepMind came together at #GoogleIO After Hours to share what they're building with Gemini and Gemma. 🚀 A few themes stood out: ⚙️ Gemini 3.5 is helping teams build more capable AI workflows with stronger tool calling 🧠 Gemini is powering highly personalized user experiences 🛠️ Gemma's open models are giving developers more flexibility to build and deploy AI applications 📱 Better tool support is making AI-powered experiences feel seamless across products and platforms Which use case are you most excited about?
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High latency in your AI agent usually isn’t a model problem, it’s a retrieval bottleneck. If you’re reprocessing the same documentation on every query, you’re adding delay and cost to every interaction. ⚠️ Enable context caching on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform so your model doesn’t have to reprocess the same data every time. You go from seconds-long delays to near-instant responses, with lower inference cost. ⚡️✅ Where are you still seeing delays in your agent? 👇
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Your AI is answering questions it can’t verify. Here is the blueprint for a trusted AI agent using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (previously Vertex AI) 👉 🧠 Anchor to your data: Use RAG and Agent Search so responses come from your docs 🔍 Ground in real time: Check outputs against live Google Search before users see them If you don’t control the source, you don’t control the answer. Where in your product are responses still going unsourced?
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Happening now! Join course creator Anant Nawalgaria cohost Smitha Kolan, and Brenda Flynn from the Kaggle team to learn how to graduate your local agents into a governed, scalable, and observable production-ready fleet. Tune in now!
Ready to build autonomous AI agents using just natural language? Vibe coding is changing the way we program. On our next livestream, we’re giving you an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming 5-Day AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Course with Google, in partnership with Kaggle! Join course creator Anant Nawalgaria, cohost Smitha Kolan, and Brenda Flynn from the Kaggle team to learn how to graduate your local agents into a governed, scalable, and observable production-ready fleet. We’re covering: - Vibe coding workflows: How natural language acts as the new coding language to build powerful, autonomous agents. - Building 10x agents: Exploring integrations with external APIs, code execution, and agent-to-agent communication. - Live Q&A: Get your questions answered by the experts before the 5-day intensive kicks off. Stop just chatting with AI and start building robust agentic workflows. Tune in on June 3 at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET
Sneak peek: Vibe coding AI agents course with Kaggle
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What happens when you bring Google Cloud’s full AI stack to #SaaStr2026? 🚀 We hit the ground running with product velocity insights from Scott Barneson & Paige Bailey, a fireside chat with Sarah Kennedy Ellis on impact of AI Agents in marketing, a live Gemini-judged pitch competition, hands-on ADK agent building demos, and an elite VIP networking reception! Thank you to the founders, developers, and investors who joined us to build the future of AI-native SaaS. Next stop: accelerating your scale. ☁️✨
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Building in Web3 comes with a different level of complexity. 🛠 That’s why we’re expanding Startup Perks for Web3 founders, moving beyond cloud credits to offer the essential building blocks of the decentralized economy. Through partners like Quicknode, TRM Labs, Allium, Cobo, and Xverse API, founders can get preferred access to: ⚙️ Nodes and wallets to streamline development 🛡️ Risk and compliance tools to build with confidence 📊 Data and analytics to scale with blockchain-native insights Whether you’re building agentic-first experiences, next-gen DeFi, or new infrastructure for the decentralized web, Google Cloud gives you more of the stack required to move faster. Start building with your Web3 perks: https://goo.gle/4a67k72
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AI agents become more powerful when they can move beyond chat and execute workflows. 🦾🛠 The “Empower ADK agents with tools” learning path shows developers how to build agents that connect to systems, trigger workflows, and execute real tasks across the business. 🔧 Connect agents to APIs and tools ⚡ Turn prompts into actions 📈 Build agents ready for production environments If your agents could fully own one workflow in your startup today, what would you hand off to them first?
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Unlock the full potential of Google Cloud to scale your startup! 🛠️ Join our upcoming Startup School: Agentic AI to build with the technical expertise needed to lead in the AI space. Starting June 9th, participants get access to live deep-dives and a dedicated Discord community to troubleshoot and collaborate in real-time. Transform your roadmap with #GenAI—register now: https://lnkd.in/eFayhkJJ
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O Google Cloud Next ‘26 parou Las Vegas e provou que a IA agora é um agente operacional completo: ela planeja, executa e roda processos de ponta a ponta. Na nossa newsletter deste mês, traduzimos os maiores insights do evento em direcionamentos práticos para a sua startup não ficar para trás – e também falamos sobre: 🌟Google for Startups AI Challenge: as inscrições vão até 5 de junho; 🌟 Cursos para quem quer desbravar o mundo da IA; 🌟 Dados sobre como os brasileiros colocaram a IA para trabalhar. 🚀Assine a newsletter aqui para receber a edição de maio: https://goo.gle/4afTrmM
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Building in Web3 comes with a different level of complexity. 🛠 That’s why we’re expanding Startup Perks for Web3 founders, moving beyond cloud credits to offer the essential building blocks of the decentralized economy. Through partners like Quicknode, TRM Labs, Allium, Cobo, and Xverse API, founders can get preferred access to: ⚙️ Nodes and wallets to streamline development 🛡️ Risk and compliance tools to build with confidence 📊 Data and analytics to scale with blockchain-native insights Whether you’re building agentic-first experiences, next-gen DeFi, or new infrastructure for the decentralized web, Google Cloud gives you more of the stack required to move faster. Start building with your Web3 perks: https://goo.gle/4u49ZW6
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