The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments
Vertex AI is Google’s unified platform for developing, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale, integrating data preparation, pipelines, MLOps, and model monitoring with AutoML. Gemini is Google’s multimodal foundation family for text, code, and images, with Gemini 2.5 “Flash” announced in 2025 as a smaller, cost-efficient variant, plus Lyria for music and Imagen for images and Veo for video. Vertex AI Model Garden lets customers deploy Google’s own models or popular open-source models on Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s AI hardware includes Cloud TPU v5e for training and the upcoming 7th‑generation TPU named “Ironwood” for inference, with TPU v5e