Google unifies Gemini Enterprise, debuts new chips

Driving the news: Google announced its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which will come in two flavors — one for training new models and the other for near-real-time answers to user queries.

• Google also announced its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, incorporating what had been Vertex AI (including access to Gemini and third-party models), plus new security, governance and orchestration features.
• It's pitching Gemini Enterprise as more ready for the needs of large businesses than Anthropic's Cowork and other agentic software.
• The announcements came as the company kicks off its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas.

The big picture: Most of the major AI players are either already creating their own chips or standing up efforts to do so, with Google and Amazon several generations in.