Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas today, where it announced lots of brand-new features, like its next generation AI processing chip, called Ironwood, and its most current AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash.It also announced a long list of AI start-ups that have actually signed to utilize its cloud.
Among them are some of the most viewed startups on the planet.
As we previously reported, this list includes Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup established by OpenAI co-founder and previous chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.It also consists of: Anysphere, that makes the uber-popular AI-powered code editor Cursor.
Google states Cursor is using Anthropics Claude models on Google Cloud.
Cursor was recently valued at $10 billion, sources have actually informed A Technology NewsRoom.
Its most significant competitor is probably GitHub CoPilot, so that would make Microsoft among its top competitors.Hebbia utilizes AI to browse large documents and respond to concerns, which has made it a hit in the legal industry.
Andreessen Horowitz led, while Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Peter Thiel took part in its $130 million Series B.It is utilizing Googles Gemini models, Google says.Magic is developing frontier models to automate coding along with research.
Its option of Google Cloud is likely somewhat apparent, considered that its 2024 $320 million fundraising round included Alphabets CapitalG and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as investors.
Its tapping Google Cloud for GPUs, according to Google.Physical Intelligence is dealing with establishing foundational software for robots and has a whos-who lineup of co-founders, consisting of solo investor extraordinaire Lachy Groom.
It raised $400 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation in November from backers consisting of Sequoia, Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, and Thrive Capital.
A few of its creators have deep ties to Google, having formerly worked at Google DeepMind, including Karol Hausman and Chelsea Finn.Photoroom is among the hottest AI start-ups in Paris, Europes center of AI.
It offers AI image editing and is utilizing Google Clouds Veo 2 video producing model and its text-to-image model Imagen 3.
Synthesia is developing items that make extremely sensible AI avatars and is using different Google models.
It raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion round in January led by NEA but with GV (previously referred to as Google Ventures) amongst the investors.All in all, Google Cloud is collecting an excellent list of startups to reinforce its race versus Microsoft Azure, and to some level AWS, for AI workloads.In addition, Google announced that it included Lightspeed to VC partners in addition to Sequoia and Y Combinator.
Google Cloud grants portfolio business from its partner investors access to its AI chips and designs.
Lightspeeds AI portfolio companies can qualify for $150,000 in cloud credits, Google stated.
It has plans to persuade even more rising star start-ups to join its cloud.Here are the rest of the AI startups that Google showcased this week: Augment Code AI software coding agentAutoscience scientific research AI agentsBig Sur AI customized recommendations for e-commerceCaptions talking video developer and video editorEon.io self-governing enterprise backup and recoveryfal is text to image, and image to videoSpot AI for security camerasStory blockchain for saving and accrediting intellectual propertyStudyHall AI coaches students on reading, composing, and exam prepUbie Japanese health care sign analyzerUdio music creationUfonia representative for medical health care assessments with patientsWagestream financial wellness platform developed by charitiesWondercraft GenAI practical audio material