Google Cloud Announces $750 Million AI Initiative at Google Cloud Next

Google Cloud Next is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and one clear message has emerged: Google wants AI startups on its cloud. To that end, it made several startup-related announcements.

The most significant is that the tech giant has earmarked a new $750 million budget to help its Cloud partners sell more AI agents to enterprises. This funding is available to partners ranging from startups to the big consulting firms. It can be used for costs like Gemini proof-of-concept projects, Google forward-deployed engineers, cloud credits, and deployment rebates.

Google also highlighted a long list of startups that are using Google Cloud, either newly signed or expanding their footprint. Among them are a few standout names:

Lovable is expanding its use of Google Cloud by launching a new coding agent through Google’s enterprise app marketplace. Lovable is the fast-growing vibe coding startup and was on a $400 million ARR track as of February, it said.

Notion, Silicon Valley’s favorite AI-infused document productivity app, most recently valued at about $11 billion, is using Gemini models to power its text and image generation features.

Gamma, an AI-powered PowerPoint killer recently valued at a $2.1 billion valuation, is using Google’s state-of-the-art image model Nano Banana 2 and other Google Cloud features.

Inferact, the commercial inference startup from the creators of the popular open-source project vLLM, is accessing Nvidia’s GPUs through Google Cloud, in addition to using the tech giant’s AI stack.

ComfyUI, the popular open-source tool for creating AI-generated images and multimedia, also offers access to Nano Banana 2 and is using other Cloud features.

Other startups that received the Google Cloud shout-out this year include:

ChorusView, which makes AI-powered smart tags that track the condition and movement of goods in real time.

Emergent AI, a vibe coding platform.

ExaCare AI, which makes AI software for post-acute medical care facilities.

Insilica, which creates AI-generated regulatory-compliant chemical safety reports.

Optii, which makes AI-enhanced hotel operations software.

Parallel AI, which builds web search and research APIs built for AI agents.

Proximal Health, which makes AI-powered software that automates the insurance claims adjudication process.

Reducto, which does AI-powered document parsing.

Stord, which handles e-commerce fulfillment and parcel operations.

Stylitics, which makes AI image generation software for retailers for tasks like outfit styling and product bundles.

Temporal, a developer cloud environment built to prevent failures.

Vapi, which makes dev tools for building conversational voice agents.

Vurvey Labs, which conducts synthetic market research via AI agents.

Wand, an in-game assistant for single-player PC games.

Watershed, which makes software that helps enterprises report on and manage sustainability programs.