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May 20, 2025 / Max Weinbach

Google I/O 2025: Gemini, AI Search, and the Evolving Business Model

Summary of the News: AI-Centric I/O: Google I/O 2025 heavily focused on Gemini AI and its integration across Google’s ecosystem, particularly Search, signaling a major strategic shift towards an AI-driven future. Android-specific news was largely separated. Gemini Model Advancements: Continued evolution of the Gemini family (2.5 Pro, Flash) including a new “Deep Think” reasoning mode,…

April 9, 2025 / Max Weinbach

Google Cloud Next 2025: Ironwood TPU, Agent Toolkits, and Google’s vertical advantage

Key Takeaways: Google Cloud unveiled Ironwood (TPUv7), its first inference-optimized TPU, offering massive leaps in compute (5x), HBM capacity (6x), and power efficiency (2x) over the previous generation. Performance is estimated to be within 5% of an Nvidia B200, despite TPUv7’s single primary compute die design. New Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol…

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