In this exclusive moment from the Cloud Wars Top 10 CEO Outlook 2025 series, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian discusses how AI and cloud simplify access to advanced tools, enabling faster adoption and driving innovation.
Highlights
00:09 — AI has an interesting relationship with cloud in the sense that AI simplifies cloud even further, and cloud simplifies AI. Cloud simplifies AI by giving you either a model or an accelerator as a service, meaning you get to use either GPUs or what Google Cloud call TPUs as a service.
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00:34 — Customers don’t have to manage or repair all of it. There are thousands of people building applications against Google Cloud models. That helps you use AI faster, easier. At the same time, AI is also simplifying cloud when you look at what Google Cloud is doing with its packaged Gemini for Workspace or Gemini for Google Cloud.
01:03 — It’s about simplifying access to the technology, and Google Cloud’s seeing great customer stories. It’s had Hiscox, for example, a large insurer that use AI and Google Cloud’s data platform to streamline how it does risk calculations and quoting for complex risks.
