At Google Cloud Next '26, the message was clear: AI is growing up. Stacy Véronneau, TELUS Digital's Infrastructure Ambassador, observed that the industry has shifted from playful experimentation with agents and MCP servers to serious deployment in live production environments. This maturity demands a robust approach to security and governance.
To support this shift, Google unveiled purpose-built TPU V8i and V8t chips, designed to handle the heavy lifting of training and inference at scale. Additionally, the graduation of Gemini Enterprise provides a unified interface for building complex workflows.
The energy at this year's conference, Véronneau's fifth, reflected a community ready to move beyond pilots and into scalable, real-world AI solutions.