It was great to see everyone (all 30,000 of you) at Google Next last week. Four things stand out as potential game-changers:

• Gemini Pro 1.5: I loved hearing about this release and how it powers so many new capabilities, especially for code acceleration (Code Assist) and operations (Cloud Assist). They’ve got an integrated vision that really differentiates them in the market.
• RAG + Agents: As retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) goes mainstream, the next generation of GenAI powered capability will be powered by agents. As I’ve written before, combining RAG and conversational search enables some interesting new use cases and tools like Google’s new Vertex AI Agent Builder will make agent development even easier.
• GenAI is delivering value: Everyone at Google Next was talking about how our entire industry is moving past proof of concept for GenAI-enabled solutions and into production. Takeaway? The solutions being deployed are delivering real business value for enterprise clients across industries.

Finally, Google owns their entire AI platform – from chips to agents, end to end – so they’ll be able to bring innovative, integrated solutions to market faster than they ever could before. They can engineer an entire solution top to bottom and say, “Yep, it's all ours.”