The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next
This week, Google held its Google Cloud Next Conference in Las Vegas, where it announced dozens of new functions, such as the next generation AI processing ship, called Ironwood, and the latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash.
It also announced a long list of AI startups that have signed to use his cloud. Among them are some of the most viewed startups in the world. As we have reported earlier, this list contains Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup founded by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutkever.
It also includes:
AnywhereAs a result, the Uber-Popular AI-driven code editor becomes cursor. Google says that cursor uses the Claude models from Anthropic on Google Cloud. Cursor was recently appreciated at $ 10 billion, sources told WAN. The biggest rival is probably Github Copilot, so that would make Microsoft one of the best competitors.
Hebbia Uses AI to search for large documents and answer questions, making it a hit in the legal industry. Andreessen Horowitz LED, while Index Ventures, Google Ventures and Peter Thiel participated in the series of $ 130 million B. It uses Google’s Gemini models, says Google.
Magic Builds Frontier models to automate both coding and research. The choice of Google Cloud is probably somewhat obvious, given that the fundraising round of 2024 $ 320 million Alphabet’s Capitalg and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt included investors. According to Google, it taps Google Cloud for GPUs.
Physical intelligence Works on developing fundamental software for robots and has a WHO-Who selection of co-founders, including Solo Investor Extraordinaire Lachy Groom. It raised $ 400 million in November with a $ 2 billion for pre-Money from Backers, including Sequoia, Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital and Thrive Capital. Some of the founders have deep ties with Google, who previously worked at Google DeepMind, including Karol Hausman and Chelsea Finn.
Photoroma is one of the most popular AI startups in Paris, Europe’s center of AI. It offers AI-photo processing and uses Google Cloud’s VEO 2-video generation model and the text-to-image model Image 3.
Synthesis Is building products that make very realistic AI -Aavatars and use various Google models. It raised $ 180 million at a round of $ 2.1 billion in January led by NEA, but with GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) among investors.
All in all, Google Cloud collects an impressive list of startups to strengthen its race against Microsoft Azure and to a certain extent AWS for AI -workloads.
In addition, Google announced that the Lightspeed added to VC Partners In addition to Sequoia and Y Combinator. Google Cloud grants portfolio companies from its partner investors access to its AI chips and models. The AI portfolio companies from Lightspeed can be eligible for $ 150,000 in cloud credits, Google said. So it has plans to convince even more rising Star startups to become a member of his cloud.
Here are the rest of the AI startups that Google has shown this week:
- Enlarged code – AI Software Coding Agent
- Car science – Scientific research AI agents
- Big Sur Ai -Stonized recommendations for e-commerce
- Captions -Talking Video -Maker and Video -edor
- Eon.io – Autonomous Enterprise Back -up and recovery
- court is – text to image and image to video
- Spot Ai – AI for security cameras
- Story – Blockchain for storing and licensing intellectual property
- Study Hall AI – Coaches students about reading, writing and exam preparation
- Ubie – Japanese health care analyzer
- Udio – Music creation
- Ufonia – Agent for clinical health care consultations with patients
- Wagestream -Financial welfare platform built by charities
- Wondercraft – Genai Realistic Audio – Hetful
