Google’s year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
This year saw new AI models, transformative products and new breakthroughs in science and robotics.
Introducing Visa Intelligent Commerce on AWS: Enabling agentic commerce with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post is cowritten with Sangeetha Bharath and Seemal Zaman from Visa. Across every industry, agentic AI is redefining how work gets done by shifting digital experiences from manual, user-driven interactions to autonomous, outcome-driven workflows. Unlike traditional AI systems that merely answer questions or provide suggestions, agentic AI introduces intelligent agents capable of reasoning, acting, …
Move Beyond Chain-of-Thought with Chain-of-Draft on Amazon Bedrock
As organizations scale their generative AI implementations, the critical challenge of balancing quality, cost, and latency becomes increasingly complex. With inference costs dominating 70–90% of large language model (LLM) operational expenses, and verbose prompting strategies inflating token volume by 3–5x, organizations are actively seeking more efficient approaches to model interaction. Traditional prompting methods, while effective, …
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Deploy Mistral AI’s Voxtral on Amazon SageMaker AI
Mistral AI’s Voxtral models combine text and audio processing capabilities in a single framework. The Voxtral family includes two distinct variants designed for different use cases and resource requirements. The Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 is a compact 3-billion-parameter model optimized for efficient audio transcription and basic multimodal understanding, making it ideal for applications where speed and resource efficiency …
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Enhance document analytics with Strands AI Agents for the GenAI IDP Accelerator
Extracting structured information from unstructured data is a critical first step to unlocking business value. Our Generative AI Intelligent Document Processing (GenAI IDP) Accelerator has been at the forefront of this transformation, already having processed tens of millions of documents for hundreds of customers. Although organizations can use intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions to digitize …
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Build a multimodal generative AI assistant for root cause diagnosis in predictive maintenance using Amazon Bedrock
Predictive maintenance is a strategy that uses data from equipment sensors and advanced analytics to predict when a machine is likely to fail, ensuring maintenance can be performed proactively to prevent breakdowns. This enables industries to reduce unexpected failures, improve operational efficiency, and extend the lifespan of critical equipment. It is applicable across a wide range of components, …
60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2025
Look back on Google AI news in 2025 across Gemini, Search, Pixel and more products.
Introducing SOCI indexing for Amazon SageMaker Studio: Faster container startup times for AI/ML workloads
Today, we are excited to introduce a new feature for SageMaker Studio: SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing. SOCI supports lazy loading of container images, where only the necessary parts of an image are downloaded initially rather than the entire container. SageMaker Studio serves as a web Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for end-to-end machine learning (ML) development, …
40 of our most helpful AI tips from 2025
Learn more about the AI tips and tools Google shared in 2025.
5 ways AI agents will transform the way we work in 2026
Today, Google Cloud dropped its 2026 AI Agent Trends Report.